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· 9 checks — DNS, redirects, IPv6, crawlability, URL variants, and domain intelligence rolled into one auditable list.
SCORE
100
GRADE
A+
FIX
0
REVIEW
1
PASS
8
INFO
0
Probed from Madrid, Spain
200 OK
Checks
9
8 PASS 1 REVIEW
B
TLS Certificate Expiry & Recommendations
56 days until leaf cert expires — 3 issues to address
REVIEW

Certificate validity

56
days left
0d 30d 60d 90d+

Recommended actions

  • Add the preload directive and submit to hstspreload.org once max-age + includeSubDomains are in place
  • Enable DNSSEC on your domain for DNS spoofing protection
  • Enable OCSP stapling on your TLS server to remove a CA roundtrip and protect user privacy
A+
DNS Records
2 A records, 101 ms lookup
PASS
2 A records, 101 ms lookup
Info::
Resolves to 2 IPv4 address(es)
Got: 104.18.42.17, 172.64.145.239
Info::
Has 2 IPv6 (AAAA) record(s)
Got: 2a06:98c1:3107::ac40:91ef, 2a06:98c1:3101::6812:2a11
Info::
2 nameserver(s) configured
Got: melinda.ns.cloudflare.com, stan.ns.cloudflare.com
Info::
5 mail exchanger(s) configured
Info::
CAA records not checked
CAA record lookup requires a specialized DNS resolver. This check will be available in a future update.
Info::
SPF record present in TXT
Info::
DNS resolution time: 101 ms
Got: 101 ms
A104.18.42.17, 172.64.145.239
AAAA2a06:98c1:3107::ac40:91ef, 2a06:98c1:3101::6812:2a11
CNAME
NSmelinda.ns.cloudflare.com, stan.ns.cloudflare.com
MX
10 aspmx.l.google.com
20 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com
30 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com
40 aspmx2.googlemail.com
50 aspmx3.googlemail.com
TXT
include:_spf.emailcampaigns.net
cloudflare_dashboard_sso=b9207a4cf3f8f5e2aa07e4eff6887c88
google-site-verification=glsA5aZxGHaju0Dgibt_UjPIRrL-ZSK6aooxg8pIVEs
amazonses:Z5QNPJ5iPN0Mq3jLqd7VUtga9VuNpdaNc905BGCARiw=
figma-domain-verification=4f7cdfa45ca39f617dd7ba7b165e1bfd5e9b5e1ec18b849c6098df...
onetrust-domain-verification=abc51c8aabd44eb59261c3dc7493e90d
atlassian-domain-verification=QUsZX4LdPWTYZgx09JhShFot27EJnUl/5CyxXFsiGebXl2QD8F...
canva-site-verification=4hV0PUE1d_0DpT4Pz9lZhQ
atlassian-domain-verification=2SzYnHY5kqS93yaRjqFeXQ06/c1FGYtUTDzZ/ESvHPhpX0UGQJ...
MS=ms71451316
adobe-idp-site-verification=cd8dab640ab786a9457c8757f4188cd682dd687a694d1d9c251e...
google-site-verification=OA9nqSHn-vz22Uzs4gPRH9i_iGw24VhWpwUUoZ84JZI
google-site-verification=ov-5YzWCfMr-76FIRNui6JkuyGtdIENMfMgNOH-Ie-o
knowbe4-site-verification=f8a0eecde40ecb172ead956570d9179c
atlassian-domain-verification=kQFG/X7fUsfUDY23M1nY9V96UTPIKoWZT6X2VBnCL9xU3reVLE...
atlassian-domain-verification=oargRKtWj/XDaHvz3KJHstsWDqU1X1CFoYqlDKWGEAZ2wrAaqN...
google-site-verification=STHgGGPVQNIXuc2PZD2zSjPJGhPZB9J4XbYSeSm0Rec
docusign=97cf394b-a0d4-4801-a1a9-b1230063483a
ZOOM_verify_PWk64Qrl1OtbGw7dRHJZBG
tollbit-domain-verification=86ee66d1d40cb4b2733cb249aa97f31d9b2f25a05c55b40a04f8...
atlassian-domain-verification=ABvZicrYcNZS0ZlndVmOFMZ4fKr9B5cnu3MSodGE7e9OvfSk6/...
apple-domain-verification=eBeUoxT2aLZiv4AM
SPF v=spf1 ip4:174.143.231.161/28 ip4:166.78.216.65/29 ip4:75.126.29.138 include:ama...
facebook-domain-verification=bjfgcbesl39drcl7v0nj6696d3l0io
CAALookup not available with standard resolver
Resolved in 101 ms

CAA record lookup requires a specialized DNS resolver. This check will be available in a future update.

Why this matters

Informational: CAA (Certification Authority Authorization) records weren't checked in this scan.

A+
Redirect Chain
No redirects — direct access
PASS
No redirects — direct access
Info::
No redirects — direct access
Got: https://mashable.com

https://mashable.com

72 ms · HTTP/1.1 FINAL

#URLStatusTimeProtocolServer
1https://mashable.com20072 msHTTP/1.1cloudflare
A+
IPv6 Readiness
IPv6 reachable (17 ms)
PASS
IPv6 reachable (17 ms)
Info::
IPv6 is configured and reachable at 2a06:98c1:3107::ac40:91ef, 2a06:98c1:3101::6812:2a11
Got: 17 ms connect
IPv6 Ready
AAAA Records 2a06:98c1:3107::ac40:91ef, 2a06:98c1:3101::6812:2a11 Connection Reachable (17 ms)
A+
Crawlability
robots.txt present, sitemap with 245 URLs
PASS
robots.txt present, sitemap with 245 URLs
Info::
robots.txt is present
Got: 4564 bytes
Info::
sitemap.xml is present
Info::
sitemap.xml is valid XML
Info::
sitemap.xml contains 245 entries
Info::
Sitemap index with 245 child sitemaps
Info::
robots.txt references sitemap
robots.txt 200 OK
Size 4564 B Sitemaps referenced 3 User-agents HTTrack, Ai2Bot-Dolma, ChatGLM-Spider, ICC-Crawler, QualifiedBot, SBIntuitionsBot, laion-huggingface-processor, cohere-ai, Echobot Bot, Novellum AI Crawl, *, LCC, meta-externalagent, ClaudeBot, bigsur.ai, PeopleInc-DCipher-Scraper/1.1.0, Crawl4AI, meta-externalfetcher, omgili, PetalBot, Spider, Offline Explorer, AmazonBuyForMe, Diffbot, LinkupBot, Poggio-Citations, Timpibot, iaskspider, OAI-SearchBot, Wrtn, Scrapy, anthropic-ai, netEstate Imprint Crawler, PanguBot, SeekrBot, ShapBot, YouBot, ZanistaBot, Anchor Browser, CCBot, Claude-Web, meta-webindexer, Nutch, AddSearchBot, Amazonbot, atlassian-bot, DeepSeekBot, Factset_spyderbot, iAsk, SemrushBot-OCOB, Webzio-Extended, Kangaroo Bot, LINER Bot, Applebot-extended, Channel3Bot, cohere-training-data-crawler, Devin, DuckAssistBot, NovaAct, ImageSiftBot, LinerBot, AwarioSmartBot, Applebot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, Datenbank Crawler, GPTBot, Big Sur AI, FacebookBot, PerplexityBot, SemrushBotSwa, TwinAgent, DDM-DCipher/1.0.7, AI2Bot, Direqt Anomura, imageSpider, mistral.ai, MistralAI-User, AutoRAG, Bytespider, Cotoyogi, ICC Crawler, KlaviyoAIBot, VelenPublicWebCrawler, Brandwatch, Bravebot, Kunato, Manus-User, TavilyBot, Ai2Bot-DeepResearchEval, ChatGPT-User, Perplexity-User, Velen Crawler, "008" Blocking No — crawling allowed
# Ziff Davis content is made available for your non-commercial use subject to our
# Terms of Use here: https://www.ziffdavis.com/terms-of-use
# Use of any robot, crawler, or other tool to scrape, harvest, extract, or retrieve any content on
# this website using automated means is prohibited without written permission from Ziff Davis.
# Prohibited uses include but are not limited to:
# (1) text and data mining under Art. 4 of the EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single
# Market;
# (2) development or operation of artificial intelligence or machine learning software or
# databases, including by training, fine-tuning, embedding, and retrieval-augmented generation;
# (3) creating data sets containing our content or sharing it with others; and
# (4) any commercial purposes.
# Contact licensing@ziffdavis.com for assistance.

# Bot Disallows
# Block AI and other unwanted bots

User-agent: AddSearchBot
User-agent: AI2Bot
User-agent: Ai2Bot-DeepResearchEval
User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma
User-agent: AmazonBuyForMe
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: Anchor Browser
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: Applebot-extended
User-agent: atlassian-bot
User-agent: AutoRAG
User-agent: AwarioSmartBot
User-agent: Big Sur AI
User-agent: bigsur.ai
User-agent: Brandwatch
User-agent: Bravebot
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: Channel3Bot
User-agent: ChatGLM-Spider
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: Claude-User
User-agent: Claude-Web
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
User-agent: Cotoyogi
User-agent: Crawl4AI
User-agent: Datenbank Crawler
User-agent: DeepSeekBot
User-agent: Devin
User-agent: Diffbot
User-agent: Direqt Anomura
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
User-agent: Echobot Bot
User-agent: FacebookBot
User-agent: Factset_spyderbot
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: iAsk
User-agent: iaskspider
User-agent: ICC Crawler
User-agent: ICC-Crawler
User-agent: ImageSiftBot
User-agent: imageSpider
User-agent: Kangaroo Bot
User-agent: KlaviyoAIBot
User-agent: Kunato
User-agent: laion-huggingface-processor
User-agent: LCC
User-agent: LinerBot
User-agent: LinkupBot
User-agent: LINER Bot
User-agent: Manus-User
User-agent: meta-externalagent
User-agent: meta-externalfetcher
User-agent: meta-webindexer
User-agent: mistral.ai
User-agent: MistralAI-User
User-agent: netEstate Imprint Crawler
User-agent: Novellum AI Crawl
User-agent: NovaAct
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: omgili
User-agent: PanguBot
User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: PeopleInc-DCipher-Scraper/1.1.0
User-agent: PetalBot
User-agent: Poggio-Citations
User-agent: QualifiedBot
User-agent: SeekrBot
User-agent: SemrushBot-OCOB
User-agent: SemrushBotSwa
User-agent: ShapBot
User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot
User-agent: Spider
User-agent: Timpibot
User-agent: TavilyBot
User-agent: TwinAgent
User-agent: Velen Crawler
User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler
User-agent: Webzio-Extended
User-agent: Wrtn
User-agent: YouBot
User-agent: ZanistaBot
Disallow: /

# END Ziff Managed/Shared content

# Ziff Davis content is made available for your non-commercial use subject to our
# Terms of Use here: https://www.ziffdavis.com/terms-of-use
# Use of any robot, crawler, or other tool to scrape, harvest, extract, or retrieve any content on
# this website using automated means is prohibited without written permission from Ziff Davis.
# Prohibited uses include but are not limited to:
# (1) text and data mining under Art. 4 of the EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single
# Market;
# (2) development or operation of artificial intelligence or machine learning software or
# databases, including by training, fine-tuning, embedding, and retrieval-augmented generation;
# (3) creating data sets containing our content or sharing it with others; and
# (4) any commercial purposes.
# Contact licensing@ziffdavis.com for assistance.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /archive/
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/
Allow: /*?page=[0-9]

User-agent: "008"
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: DDM-DCipher/1.0.7
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: HTTrack
User-agent: Nutch
User-agent: Offline Explorer
User-agent: Scrapy
Allow: /ad/article/samsung-galaxy-ai-changing-smartphone-photography
Allow: /ad/article/how-samsung-galaxy-ai-can-upgrade-your-smartphone
Allow: /ad/article/samsung-galaxy-ai-automates-everyday-tasks
Disallow: /

Sitemap: https://mashable.com/sitemap-index.xml
Sitemap: https://mashable.com/sitemap-news-0.xml
Sitemap: https://mashable.com/sitemap-live-blogs-0.xml


sitemap.xml 200 OK
Type Sitemap Index URLs 245 entries Valid XML Yes
Child Sitemaps:
A+
URL Variants
www/non-www, trailing slash, HTTP→HTTPS
PASS
www/non-www, trailing slash, HTTP→HTTPS
Info::
www/non-www redirect configured correctly (preferred: non-www)
Info::
HTTP correctly 301-redirects to HTTPS

www / non-www

301https://www.mashable.com/
200https://mashable.com/

Preferred variant: non-www

HTTP → HTTPS

301http://mashable.com/ https://mashable.com/

Consistent

A+
Domain Intelligence
mashable.com — via CSC Corporate Domains, Inc., 21 years old
PASS
mashable.com — via CSC Corporate Domains, Inc., 21 years old
Info::
Domain registered until Jul 19, 2029 (3 years, 3 months remaining)
Info::
DNSSEC is not enabled
DNSSEC protects against DNS spoofing attacks. While not required, enabling DNSSEC adds an additional layer of security. Contact your DNS provider to enable it.
Info::
Registrar: CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.
Warning::
Registrar lock is NOT enabled
The domain can be transferred without an unlock step. Enable registrar lock (clientTransferProhibited) in your registrar's control panel to protect against unauthorized or accidental transfers.
Domain expiry

1102 days

July 19, 2029

SSL certificate

56 days

Issued by Google Trust Services

Domain age

21 years

Registered July 19, 2005

DNSSEC

Not enabled

Protects against DNS spoofing

Hosting

Unknown

2a06:98c1:3101::6812:2a11

Registrar

CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.

Unlocked 2 NS records
Expiry timeline
Today
+1 year
Domain expiry SSL expiry Danger zone (≤30 days)
Recommended actions
  • Enable DNSSEC to protect visitors from DNS spoofing
  • Enable registrar lock (clientTransferProhibited) to block unauthorized domain transfers
Registrar CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.
Created July 19, 2005 (21 years ago)
Expires July 19, 2029 (3 years, 3 months)
Last Updated August 21, 2025
Name Servers melinda.ns.cloudflare.com, stan.ns.cloudflare.com
DNSSEC Not enabled
Hosting
IP Address 2a06:98c1:3101::6812:2a11
Data source: rdap (0.2s)

DNSSEC protects against DNS spoofing attacks. While not required, enabling DNSSEC adds an additional layer of security. Contact your DNS provider to enable it.

Why this matters

Without DNSSEC, an attacker who can poison your DNS can hijack your domain — and SSL certs alone don't stop them.

Learn more

DNSSEC adds cryptographic signatures to DNS records, preventing forged responses from poisoning resolver caches. Without it, an attacker who controls the network path can redirect your domain to a malicious server before any HTTPS handshake happens. Most modern registrars (Cloudflare, Google Domains, Route 53) enable it with one toggle.

Source: ICANN / RFC 4033

The domain can be transferred without an unlock step. Enable registrar lock (clientTransferProhibited) in your registrar's control panel to protect against unauthorized or accidental transfers.

Why this matters

Without registrar lock, an attacker who phishes your registrar credentials can transfer the domain in minutes — total brand hijack.

Learn more

Registrar lock (clientTransferProhibited, clientUpdateProhibited, clientDeleteProhibited) requires extra verification before any transfer/update/delete. Every major registrar offers it free. Combined with 2FA on your registrar account, it's the strongest defense against domain hijacking.

Source: ICANN / domain-security best practice

A+
HTTP Probe Timing
Total 112 ms — DNS, TCP, TLS, TTFB, content transfer breakdown
PASS
DNS Lookup DNS Lookup — time to resolve the domain name to an IP address.
32 ms
TCP Connect TCP Connect — time to establish a TCP connection to the server.
16 ms
TLS Handshake TLS Handshake — time to complete the HTTPS encryption handshake.
21 ms
Time to First Byte Time to First Byte — how long the server takes to respond with the first byte of data.
108 ms
Total Time Total request time from DNS lookup through full response.
112 ms

Connection waterfall

DNS Lookup 32 ms TCP Connect 16 ms TLS Handshake 21 ms Server Processing 38 ms Content Transfer 4 ms
A+
CDN & Delivery
Cloudflare (HIT)
PASS
Cloudflare (HIT)
Info::
Site is served via Cloudflare CDN (edge: CDG)
Got: cf-ray: 9eceb07ceee37005-CDG
Info::
CDN cache status: HIT
CDN Detected: Cloudflare
Provider Cloudflare Cache Status HIT Evidence cf-ray: 9eceb07ceee37005-CDG
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