Infrastructure

· 9 checks — DNS, redirects, IPv6, crawlability, URL variants, and domain intelligence rolled into one auditable list.

SCORE

GRADE

FIX

REVIEW

PASS

INFO

Probed from Amsterdam, Netherlands

301 Moved Permanently

Checks

5 PASS 4 REVIEW

Redirect Chain

1 redirect(s), 1311 ms total

REVIEW

1 redirect(s), 1311 ms total

Single redirect

Got: https://monash.edu → https://www.monash.edu/ (301)

WWW normalization redirect

Redirect overhead: 1311 ms total

Got: 1311 ms

https://monash.edu

280 ms · HTTP/1.1

301

https://www.monash.edu/

1031 ms · HTTP/1.1 FINAL

#	URL	Status	Time	Protocol	Server
1	https://monash.edu	301	280 ms	HTTP/1.1	cloudflare
2	https://www.monash.edu/	200	1031 ms	HTTP/1.1	cloudflare

See the visual redirect chain in the HTTP Probe tab →

IPv6 Readiness

Action

No IPv6 support

REVIEW

No IPv6 support

No IPv6 (AAAA) records found

IPv6 support is increasingly important for global accessibility. About 40% of internet users have IPv6 connectivity.

No IPv6 Support

About 40% of internet users have IPv6. Consider adding AAAA records.

IPv6 support is increasingly important for global accessibility. About 40% of internet users have IPv6 connectivity.

Why this matters

No AAAA records — same impact as 'no IPv6 (AAAA) records'; IPv6-preferring clients pay extra latency falling back to IPv4.

Source: Google IPv6 stats

URL Variants

www/non-www, trailing slash, HTTP→HTTPS

REVIEW

www/non-www, trailing slash, HTTP→HTTPS

Both www and non-www versions serve content

Got: Both variants return 200 Expected: One variant 301-redirects to the other

HTTP correctly 301-redirects to HTTPS

www / non-www

200https://www.monash.edu/

200https://monash.edu/

Inconsistent — duplicate content risk

HTTP → HTTPS

301http://monash.edu/ → https://monash.edu/

Consistent

TLS Certificate Expiry & Recommendations

62 days until leaf cert expires — 4 issues to address

REVIEW

Certificate validity

days left

0d 30d 60d 90d+

Recommended actions

Add includeSubDomains to the HSTS directive
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

DNS Records

1 A records, 1053 ms lookup

PASS

1 A records, 1053 ms lookup

Resolves to 1 IPv4 address(es)

Got: 43.245.41.240

Single A record — no DNS redundancy

Multiple A records provide failover if one server goes down.

No IPv6 (AAAA) records

3 nameserver(s) configured

Got: ns5.its.monash.edu, ns4.its.monash.edu, ns3.its.monash.edu

5 mail exchanger(s) configured

CAA records not checked

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

SPF record present in TXT

DNS resolution is slow (1053 ms)

Slow DNS adds latency to every page load. Consider a faster DNS provider.

Got: 1053 ms

A	43.245.41.240
AAAA	—
CNAME	—
NS	ns5.its.monash.edu, ns4.its.monash.edu, ns3.its.monash.edu
MX	1 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM 5 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM 5 ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM 10 ALT4.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM 10 ALT3.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM
TXT	96djk4a14vt0oeqanrqj4lfht 983f58c6-3de4-46d7-99a8-b5c8dfa8e71c atlassian-domain-verification=IQ+bySYOs/QZGRIuF7Z9vPdNvVckJnyDIf1swW0kb1Y1gYJBHs... apple-domain-verification=wCYCMjqYC5RfYNiw google-site-verification=yyG8aHRArULPJ-1PTm6bXwpev_P3vq9Xdm81RsLYEmU kkcmlwgpsm8ypw70z8kl67wxrpvrrzkb onetrust-domain-verification=3abbb9cb31c947ed99a18c4bbec705da access-domain-verification=bbd2339bbb9d527801793cc1f523a8d1da7bcf58662580cc73483... adobe-idp-site-verification=0596f71a-5fe5-4375-b5bf-55ba1c84fdc6 nitro-verification-code=MzA5Mjc4Nzk3OTIwMjQxOTUzNw== dropbox-domain-verification=8nhigikiw6a0 4tosmtfboa6a3ba8vn8q836gte docusign=d0dc6c23-176f-4a72-a389-d4d3987d56a2 QuoVadis=bb1cf25b-82f1-4942-80f4-04f594c3052f q2cs83t6tjkrhqpff74yt85dmzdgfy1y docusign=4a29dd43-7e59-4e9e-930c-36b9d27a3188 The new International Monash University notion-domain-verification=mEPKfdJHsOYjzXVgk4YThNOEjmBMHC0Kkcgo7A9tXOi loom-site-verification=fbaa66db5f034160899f82ff01ea0b3e jamf-site-verification=7KdG4PbX29Rbzb6y87IfVg airtable-verification=39f92ed676ddce3f3c70c7e31d7c88d5 ibmid=eeaf23e6-fa51-444d-a3e3-bb159d06ba94 gRKe07OQONoMasCNWpSi2t1g docker-verification=0e6b04ff-d193-48ec-a74d-33c49ebd90f1 status-page-domain-verification=f7bcn63c06qw google-site-verification=-lZyg-wxqxnQ7_Q3MjOhCQRenBz-5D21mC-mkk5XXFE google-site-verification=pYQ958vtsnFt9PwnarbiDapdT1d5zMnRnYtm9W34hho canva-site-verification=E5Z0eyGzQut1ta3mYdjIYw monday-com-verification=xAYXjuQcYXVeEHdBIzZ5PXNfMapSa_9WGcky1j3Gvyw openai-domain-verification=dv-p0XO9fH035rHZjQWoXQY6rUV logmein-verification-code=98ac82e9-123a-4d71-8c71-9850cb502ef8 smartsheet-site-validation=acQgJsWiOH7oKv-F4-AUMDlWCh8Wykr1 zoho-verification=zb93606880.zmverify.zoho.com.au airtable-verification=859d3afcd65c92f4f662d3a0041f4953 SPF v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com -all google-site-verification=cDaz_IB-0x5aAclvva5-D-S4O5dzzC26Cud-lPTHMJg smartsheet-site-validation=jnm-eTHRYV3kMhBE4s3DnA64CCjB4cWM
CAA	Lookup not available with standard resolver

Resolved in 1053 ms

Multiple A records provide failover if one server goes down.

Why this matters

Single A record means a single point of failure — if that IP goes down, your site is unreachable until DNS TTL expires.

Learn more ▾

Add multiple A records for round-robin failover, or use a managed DNS provider with health-checked failover (Route 53, Cloudflare, NS1). Short TTL (60-300s) lets clients recover faster on outages.

Source: SRE practice / DNS architecture

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.

Slow DNS adds latency to every page load. Consider a faster DNS provider.

Why this matters

DNS resolution is slow — anycast DNS providers (Cloudflare, Route 53) typically resolve <50ms globally.

Source: DNS performance benchmarks

Crawlability

robots.txt present, no sitemap

PASS

robots.txt present, no sitemap

robots.txt is present

Got: 9096 bytes

No sitemap.xml found

A sitemap helps search engines discover and index your pages more efficiently.

robots.txt references sitemap

A sitemap helps search engines discover and index your pages more efficiently.

Why this matters

No sitemap.xml — Google relies on crawl-graph discovery alone, slowing indexing of deep or fresh URLs.

Learn more ▾

A sitemap accelerates Google's discovery of new and updated content. Most CMSes auto-generate one; static-site frameworks need a build-step plugin. Reference it from robots.txt and submit in Search Console to confirm Google can fetch it.

Source: sitemaps.org / Google Search Central

robots.txt 200 OK

Size 9096 B Sitemaps referenced 1 User-agents * Blocking No — crawling allowed

# www.monash.edu

User-agent: *


User-agent: *

Disallow: /*?sq_content_src=

Disallow: /*_recache

Disallow: /*_nocache

Disallow: /*_edit

Disallow: /*_admin

Disallow: /*_login

Disallow: /*_performance

Disallow: /_content

Disallow: /_designs

Disallow: /__lib

Disallow: /__fudge

Disallow: /_dev

Disallow: /global-search

Disallow: /search


Disallow: /_webservices

Disallow: /monash-mango/


# Added for Dey Alexander. Templates no be indexed. RK dec 2003

Disallow: /staff/web/templates/

#Added for migration access issue 10/9/03 sms#

Disallow: /about/itsp/monash_only/

Disallow: /about/support_services/

Disallow: /about/support_servicesold/

Disallow: /journals/analytica-moscow/

Disallow: /journals/old-moscow/

Disallow: /magpie/restrict/

Disallow: /monashplan/draft/

Disallow: /monashplan/global99/

Disallow: /monashplan/monashonly/

Disallow: /mrs/support/news2/

Disallow: /news/media/

Disallow: /pso-old/staff/

Disallow: /staff/announce/

Disallow: /staff/identity/

Disallow: /wwwdev/support/webauthors-l/

Disallow: /colours/

Disallow: /copyright/MonStaff/

Disallow: /pub/		# The FTP tree should not be indexed as HTTP

Disallow: /pub/ftp	# 

Disallow: /ftp		#

Disallow: /old/         # Where we keep things we think we might need again

Disallow: /wwwdev_src/  # seems logical

Disallow: /images/      # Not a lot of point

Disallow: /cgi-bin/     

#Disallow: /library/    # Removed 21/11/2012 by DMa - Google needs to index library's site

#Disallow: /arts/       # removed on 20/11/19 - after domain change for arts

Disallow: /ausapec/

Disallow: /cclcs/

Disallow: /korean/

Disallow: /phil/

Disallow: /nksc/

Disallow: /visarts/

Disallow: /ling/

Disallow: /mai/

Disallow: /ncas/

Disallow: /psych/

Disallow: /deeb/

Disallow: /genetics/

Disallow: /appsci/

Disallow: /newwww/

Disallow: /informatics/

Disallow: /study/study-archive

Disallow: /pubs/1999handbooks/

Disallow: /pubs/98handbooks/

Disallow: /pubs/97handbooks/

Disallow: /pubs/96handbooks/

Disallow: /pubs/1995handbooks/

Disallow: /pubs/2001handbooks/

Disallow: /pubs/2000handbooks/

Disallow: /pubs/2002handbooks/

Disallow: /pubs/2003handbooks/

Disallow: /pubs/2004handbooks/

Disallow: /pubs/2005handbooks/

Disallow: /pubs/2006handbooks/

Disallow: /pubs/handbooks/offcampus/

Disallow: /pubs/2007handbooks/

Disallow: /pubs/2008handbooks/

Disallow: /pubs/2009handbooks/

Disallow: /pubs/2010handbooks/

Disallow: /pubs/2011handbooks/

Disallow: /pubs/2012handbooks/

##INS555156 HJiang, will be on 1st of Oct

Disallow: /pubs/2013handbooks/

Disallow: /pubs/2014handbooks/

Disallow: /pubs/2015handbooks/




# INC000001675021

Disallow: /pubs/2016handbooks/

Disallow: /pubs/2017handbooks/


# Updated 24/09

Disallow: /pubs/2018handbooks/

Disallow: /pubs/2019handbooks/



# INC000001890005

# Disallow: /library/search


# INC000001918907

Disallow: /esolutions/accounts-passwords/access/


##### Don't index web server statistics

Disallow: /wwwdev/stats/

Disallow: /servers/stats/

##### Don't index user disks - they should be accessed as ~username

Disallow: /cc/ccst1

Disallow: /cc/ccst2

Disallow: /cc/ccst3

Disallow: /cc/ccst4

Disallow: /cc/ccst5

Disallow: /cc/ccst6

Disallow: /cc/ccst7

Disallow: /cc/ccst8

Disallow: /cc/ccst9

Disallow: /cc/ccstaff1

Disallow: /cc/ccstaff2

Disallow: /cc/ccstaff3

Disallow: /cc/ccstaff4

Disallow: /cc/ccstaff5

Disallow: /cc/ccstaff6

Disallow: /cc/student

Disallow: /cc/staff

Disallow: /cc/staff2

Disallow: /cc/alstaff

Disallow: /cc/alst

Disallow: /eestaff

Disallow: /eestaff2

Disallow: /eest1

Disallow: /eest2

Disallow: /mobstaff1

Disallow: /mobstaff2

Disallow: /cc/

Disallow: /journals/analytica-moscow/

Disallow: /journals/old-moscow/

Disallow: /wwwdev/yale/

Disallow: /pso/psoarchive2000/

Disallow: /pso/psoarchive_pre2000/

Disallow: /resgrant/digest/

Disallow: /resgrant/gresults/

Disallow: /resgrant/expertise/

Disallow: /resgrant/rscpa95/

Disallow: /resgrant/1996resdata/

Disallow: /resgrant/1996resdata/software/

Disallow: /resgrant/CADRES/minutes/

Disallow: /resgrant/CADRES/agenda/

Disallow: /phdschol/cmmittee/agendas/

Disallow: /Anatomy/students/

Disallow: /Anatomy/Notices/

Disallow: /unisec/pdc/

Disallow: /unisec/taci/

Disallow: /unisec/council/

Disallow: /unisec/protect/

Disallow: /magpie/

Disallow: /personnel/handbook/

Disallow: /personnel/empcond/entbarg/

Disallow: /personnel/sdu/training/fptemplates/

Disallow: /.new/

Disallow: /moved/

#lls site moved to celts server

#Disallow: /lls/

Disallow: /servers/

#Disallow: /orientation/

Disallow: /vo/

Disallow: /wwwdev/

#fixing issue with mrgs progress reports indexing

Disallow: /phdschol/apr2004/

#HEAT 450520 - removing /alumni./assets/images/ from Google image search

#User-agent: Googlebot-Image

Disallow: /alumni/assets/images/ 

Disallow: /research/directory/

#for Gary Gopinathan REMEDY INC200916 by HM 21 Feb 2012

Disallow: /international/muelc/

#for Rachel Zelada REMEDY INC378928 by DMa 14 Dec 2012

Disallow: /international/studyabroad/

Disallow: /students/studyabroad/

#added for Derek Brown REMEDY INC400190 - 30 Jan 2013 by HM

Disallow: /research/profiles/

#REMEDY INC513114 - 1 Aug 2013 by DMa

Disallow: /research/people/profiles/profile.html?sid=2519&pid=3226

#REMEDY INC542349 - 11 Nov by DMa

Disallow: /research/people/profiles/profile.html?sid=3933097&pid=9467

#REMEDY INC693434 - 15 May 2014 by DMa

Disallow: /study/assets/includes/pdfs/destination-monash.pdf

#REMEDY INC842290 - 12/01/2015 by MathewR

Disallow: /mcpl/

Disallow: /timetables-staging

#Squiz Zd 38741

Disallow: /library/sandpit/

# INC000002051888

Disallow: /library/sandbox/

# Don't index Internal news folder as requested by Internal communications team - 2 June 2017 - done by Shefali Joshi

Disallow: /news/internal/

# MS-81 - Move Study to monash.edu domain - 19 Aug 2017 by dcook

Disallow: /study/_designs

Disallow: /study/examples

Disallow: /study/_courses

Disallow: /study/search

Disallow: /*/study-archive

Disallow: /study/media/course-feature-blocks 

# SDVIC-607 - Prevent crawl of old majors

Disallow: /study/courses/majors-minors-specialisations/2017/


Disallow: /get-started-new/


Disallow: /news/internal/


#added for Fiona McQueen by SMC digital team 09/18

Disallow: /commission-seminar/designing-for-the-future

# INC000001972784 added for Greg McKeown by HDo 14 Sep 2018

Disallow: /fees/statement/about/csp

Disallow: /fees/statement/about/full-fee

Disallow: /fees/statement/about/ssaf


Disallow: /_search_web_services/news-listing


# INC000002074170

Disallow: /education/mentor-report/


# Disallow MUMA's Design Files

Disallow: /muma/_designs/


# SDVIC-4380 Prevent crawling of Funnelback search queries or facets.

Disallow: *?*query=

Disallow: *?*f.*%7C*=


# ### OTHER SETTINGS ###

Crawl-Delay: 30
Crawl-delay: 30

Sitemap: http://www.monash.edu/sitemap.xml




# INC000002334371 - Disallow MADA's /artdes/ paths

Disallow: /artdes/


#added by Simiao Luo from SMC, requested by Harriosn Gist, 11/12/2019#

Disallow: /study/courses/complete-my-profile

Disallow: /confirm-your-details


#added by Wilson for Jenny Legg INC000002497957

Disallow: /media/images


#added by Angelene Wong, 22/10/2020

Disallow: /monash-scholars/preparing-for-year-11-and-12/maf-form/master-registration-form-preparing-for-year-11-and-12

Disallow: /monash-scholars/preparing-for-year-11-and-12/maf-form/privacy-statement-preparing-for-year-11-and-12

Disallow: /monash-scholars/preparing-for-year-11-and-12/maf-form/_thankyoumessage-preparing-for-year-11-and-12


#added by Angelene Wong, 27/10/2020

Disallow: /about/our-locations/peninsula-campus/configuration/_thankyoumessage-peninsula-experience-day

Disallow: /about/our-locations/peninsula-campus/configuration/privacy-statement-peninsula-experience-day

Disallow: /about/our-locations/peninsula-campus/configuration/register-for-updates-peninsula-experience-day

Disallow: /international/our-locations/peninsula-campus/configuration/_thankyoumessage-peninsula-experience-day

Disallow: /international/our-locations/peninsula-campus/configuration/privacy-statement-peninsula-experience-day

Disallow: /international/our-locations/peninsula-campus/configuration/register-for-updates-peninsula-experience-day


# added Dennis Gellert, 26/03/2021 INC000002859750

Disallow: /lens-publishing-guide


# added Peter Bui, 23/04/2024 WEBUW-3821

User-agent: *

Disallow: /*?a=

Disallow: /sso

Disallow: /talent/blog/wp-content/themes/Impreza

Disallow: /law/home/meet-our-people/meet-our-hdr-community/metadata-schemas/arthurbuilds2/configurations/sophis-profiles-search-2365170

Disallow: /law/research/graduate-research/meet-our-hdr-community/metadata-schemas/arthurbuilds2/configurations/sophis-profiles-search-2365170


# added Greg McKeown, 13/09/2024 INC000003611272

Disallow: /companies-on-campus


# added Khoi Nguyen, 09/06/2025 INC000003753653

Disallow: /*?*SQ_DESIGN_NAME=

Disallow: /*?*SQ_PAINT_LAYOUT_NAME=

Disallow: /*&*SQ_DESIGN_NAME=

Disallow: /*&*SQ_PAINT_LAYOUT_NAME=

sitemap.xml No sitemap found

No sitemap found

Adding a sitemap helps search engines discover your pages.

A+

Domain Intelligence

monash.edu — 26 years, 7 months old, hosted on SQUIZ-AS-AP Squiz Pty Ltd, AU

PASS

monash.edu — 26 years, 7 months old, hosted on SQUIZ-AS-AP Squiz Pty Ltd, AU

Domain registered until Jul 31, 2026 (3 months remaining)

Hosting: SQUIZ-AS-AP Squiz Pty Ltd, AU

Got: AS55532

Domain expiry

12 days

July 31, 2026

SSL certificate

62 days

Issued by Sectigo Limited

Domain age

26 years, 7 months

Registered February 5, 2000

DNSSEC

Status unknown

Protects against DNS spoofing

Hosting

SQUIZ-AS-AP Squiz Pty Ltd, AU

ASN AS55532

43.245.41.240

Registrar

Registrar unknown

Lock status unknown 3 NS records

Expiry timeline

Today

+1 year

Domain expiry SSL expiry Danger zone (≤30 days)

Recommended actions

Renew the domain or enable auto-renewal to prevent accidental expiry

Registrar

Created February 5, 2000 (26 years, 7 months ago)

Expires July 31, 2026 (3 months)

Last Updated March 25, 2026

Name Servers ns3.its.monash.edu, ns5.its.monash.edu, ns4.its.monash.edu

Registrant Monash University

Hosting

IP Address 43.245.41.240

ASN AS55532 (SQUIZ-AS-AP Squiz Pty Ltd, AU)

Provider SQUIZ-AS-AP Squiz Pty Ltd, AU

Data source: whois (0.8s)

A+

HTTP Probe Timing

Total 289 ms — DNS, TCP, TLS, TTFB, content transfer breakdown

PASS

DNS Lookup

169 ms

TCP Connect

1 ms

TLS Handshake

10 ms

Time to First Byte

289 ms

Total Time

289 ms

Connection waterfall

DNS Lookup 169 ms TCP Connect 1 ms TLS Handshake 10 ms Server Processing 108 ms Content Transfer 0 ms

A+

CDN & Delivery

Cloudflare (HIT)

PASS

Cloudflare (HIT)

Site is served via Cloudflare CDN (edge: AMS)

Got: cf-ray: 9effff0abcc4b35c-AMS

CDN cache status: HIT

CDN Detected: Cloudflare

Provider Cloudflare Cache Status HIT Evidence cf-ray: 9effff0abcc4b35c-AMS

All checks on this page are automated. Results are estimates - run targeted manual reviews when the score affects a release decision.