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· 9 checks — DNS, redirects, IPv6, crawlability, URL variants, and domain intelligence rolled into one auditable list.
SCORE
86
GRADE
B
FIX
1
REVIEW
3
PASS
5
INFO
0
Probed from Santa Clara, United States
301 Moved Permanently
Checks
9
5 PASS 3 REVIEW 1 FIX
D
CDN & Delivery
Action
No CDN detected
FIX
No CDN detected
Warning::
No CDN detected
A CDN can significantly improve load times for users around the world by caching content at edge nodes closer to them.
No CDN detected

Consider using a CDN to improve global delivery speed and reduce origin load.

C
IPv6 Readiness
Action
No IPv6 support
REVIEW
No IPv6 support
Info::
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

B
URL Variants
www/non-www, trailing slash, HTTP→HTTPS
REVIEW
www/non-www, trailing slash, HTTP→HTTPS
Critical::
Both www and non-www versions serve content
Got: Both variants return 200 Expected: One variant 301-redirects to the other
Info::
HTTP correctly 301-redirects to HTTPS

www / non-www

200https://www.nydailynews.com/
200https://nydailynews.com/

Inconsistent — duplicate content risk

HTTP → HTTPS

301http://nydailynews.com/ https://nydailynews.com/

Consistent

B
TLS Certificate Expiry & Recommendations
39 days until leaf cert expires — 3 issues to address
REVIEW

Certificate validity

39
days left
0d 30d 60d 90d+

Recommended actions

  • Enable HSTS: Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
  • 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
1 A records, 141 ms lookup
PASS
1 A records, 141 ms lookup
Info::
Resolves to 1 IPv4 address(es)
Got: 192.0.66.144
Info::
Single A record — no DNS redundancy
Multiple A records provide failover if one server goes down.
Info::
No IPv6 (AAAA) records
Info::
4 nameserver(s) configured
Got: ns-1494.awsdns-58.org, ns-1929.awsdns-49.co.uk, ns-318.awsdns-39.com, ns-670.awsdns-19.net
Info::
3 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: 141 ms
Got: 141 ms
A192.0.66.144
AAAA
CNAME
NSns-1494.awsdns-58.org, ns-1929.awsdns-49.co.uk, ns-318.awsdns-39.com, ns-670.awsdns-19.net
MX
1 aspmx.l.google.com
5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com
5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com
TXT
13kvutnp8irg8ioiotkqq86i51
4b0695jv70h8g47zkdg16kzygm3ls02v
7rdja10s86ikle4v2h82p6n642
8oqjg39e67s8ao65ndrgnd5ufv
IPROTA_D59226-XXX
MS=ms76891439
amazonses:N8Ba1fh8HfMvT+t5J7vwXFgnXMVaK646lFnkrQkLoVc=
amazonses:rUbohPMg18d7fvhiuygSmeQbkP+Y7JuMBpNoGODmKIM=
bntlt7a869guderdu33t64dms5
facebook-domain-verification=ois8caa2a84ewa28r3zx5ilvxs4g4r
fbd8dhf0dupevcppakg92fireq
fmtpohpupbmlg7ph5dgtpqhn1r
fzkp52pbdwht5h6rsnhcfkh8hqs4d0z3
google-site-verification=1RnCO3kOaGC8U0mJXV2sbY-6XM6VJscT8lSoWJOB7UY
google-site-verification=1fTCAXxtHpJXkMkbrZjElBCAm6inCZ-7AkzpL2tLSaY
google-site-verification=5JHSGMK_gK4xGs8DWfgnX4xwHqIAePxl4j18e5qkHv4
google-site-verification=a40Yo5u46-Gpqee1PSKGDsuayXa3mn8A9wSFUJBnVDY
google-site-verification=hMnRAtdizhrC_XVmPTQN1cDWp-b--71NSTwSMExNeAI
google-site-verification=wJYLuUe209pKCTIs9tSdz5kaorlk7GqqWPHX9rOzH2M
hucq9oebjdhnpo231ru64sqlu4
knowbe4-site-verification=90309b4eacebd82470e924deb428c541
mppmekcnmo3na10p5fqp793g9v
tollbit-domain-verification=ef1c9b50f5288be2ac950c259ca3f721ddf4d2161522e79044e2...
SPF v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:_spf.google.com include:_spf.s...
CAALookup not available with standard resolver
Resolved in 141 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.

A
Redirect Chain
1 redirect(s), 64 ms total
PASS
1 redirect(s), 64 ms total
Info::
Single redirect
Got: https://nydailynews.com → https://www.nydailynews.com/ (301)
Info::
WWW normalization redirect

https://nydailynews.com

44 ms · HTTP/1.1

301

https://www.nydailynews.com/

21 ms · HTTP/1.1 FINAL

#URLStatusTimeProtocolServer
1https://nydailynews.com30144 msHTTP/1.1nginx
2https://www.nydailynews.com/20021 msHTTP/1.1nginx

See the visual redirect chain in the HTTP Probe tab →

A+
Crawlability
robots.txt present, sitemap with 10000 URLs
PASS
robots.txt present, sitemap with 10000 URLs
Info::
robots.txt is present
Got: 4247 bytes
Info::
sitemap.xml is present
Info::
sitemap.xml is valid XML
Info::
sitemap.xml contains 10000 entries
Info::
Sitemap index with 10000 child sitemaps
Info::
robots.txt references sitemap
robots.txt 200 OK
Size 4247 B Sitemaps referenced 1 User-agents Perplexity-User, Bytespider, AmazonAdBot, Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0; Nexus 5 Build/MRA51N) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.67 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; mrfCompass-Jukebox/1.0), AI2Bot, ChatGPT-User, Claude-User, DocSpotBot, LCC, Meta-ExternalAgent, PanguBot, grapeshot, anthropic-ai, Archive.org_bot, Cohere-training-data-crawler, Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; NewsRoom.BI/0.1; +http://www.newsroom.bi/bot.html), Baiduspider, Webzio-extended, GPTBot, ia_archiver-web.archive.org, *, Datenbank Crawler, Google-Extended, laion-huggingface-processor, Mantisbot, netEstate Imprint Crawler, PerplexityBot, Timpibot, Applebot-Extended, carbon-umbrella-bot, FacebookBot, GnowitNewsbot, Thinkbot, Diffbot, MistralAI-User, VelenPublicWebCrawler, Vivaldi, Spider, Twitterbot, Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0; Nexus 5 Build/MRA51N) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.67 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; mrfCompass-Booldog/1.0), Amazonbot, CCBot, Claude-Web, Cotoyogi, grok-crawler, SBIntuitionsBot, Claude-Searchbot, Dalvik, Kangaroo Bot, OAI-SearchBot, PetalBot, ICC-Crawler, omgili, SirdataBot, Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_2) AppleWebKit/537.36(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/35.0.1916.153 Safari/537.36 (compatible; mrfCompass-Booldog/1.0), Brightbot 1.0, ClaudeBot, DuckAssistBot, facebookexternalhit, Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2272.96 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; mrfCompass-Marshall/1.0), YandexBot, Ai2Bot-Dolma, imageSpider, Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; EchoboxBot/1.0; hash/w4mwnpbXf3MFAbxOkJRw; +http://www.echobox.com) Blocking No — crawling allowed
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# Any other uses are prohibited, including but not limited to:
# (1) text and data mining activities under Art. 4 of the EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market;
# (2) use of any Content or information available on the Site for purposes of retrieval augmented generation, grounding, training, or development of machine learning models, algorithms, or artificial intelligence (AI) systems, or to generate substitute content or develop any products, services, or technology;
# (3) caching or archiving the Content; and/or
# (4) any commercial purposes.
# Contact us at https://www.nydailynews.com/contact-us/ for assistance.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-content/cache/
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /comments/

User-agent: AI2Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma
Disallow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: Archive.org_bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Baiduspider
Disallow: /

User-agent: Brightbot 1.0
Disallow: /

User-Agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: carbon-umbrella-bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-Searchbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /

User-agent: Cohere-training-data-crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Cotoyogi
Disallow: /

User-agent: Dalvik
Disallow: /

User-agent: Datenbank Crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DocSpotBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: GnowitNewsbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: grok-crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: ia_archiver-web.archive.org
Disallow: /

User-agent: ICC-Crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: imageSpider
Disallow: /

User-agent: Kangaroo Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: laion-huggingface-processor
Disallow: /

User-agent: LCC
Disallow: /

User-agent: Mantisbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Disallow: /

User-agent: MistralAI-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: netEstate Imprint Crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: omgili
Disallow: /

User-agent: PanguBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SirdataBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Spider
Disallow: /

User-agent: Thinkbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Timpibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Vivaldi
Disallow: /

User-agent: Webzio-extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: YandexBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AmazonAdBot
Disallow:

User-agent: facebookexternalhit
Disallow:

User-agent: grapeshot
Disallow:

User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; EchoboxBot/1.0; hash/w4mwnpbXf3MFAbxOkJRw; +http://www.echobox.com)
Disallow:

User-agent: Twitterbot
Disallow:

User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; NewsRoom.BI/0.1; +http://www.newsroom.bi/bot.html)
Allow: /
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0; Nexus 5 Build/MRA51N) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.67 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; mrfCompass-Booldog/1.0)
Allow: /
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_2) AppleWebKit/537.36(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/35.0.1916.153 Safari/537.36 (compatible; mrfCompass-Booldog/1.0)
Allow: /
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2272.96 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; mrfCompass-Marshall/1.0)
Allow: /
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0; Nexus 5 Build/MRA51N) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.67 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; mrfCompass-Jukebox/1.0)
Allow: /
# Sitemap archive
Sitemap: https://www.nydailynews.com/sitemap.xml


sitemap.xml 200 OK
Type Sitemap Index URLs 10000 entries Valid XML Yes
Child Sitemaps:
A+
Domain Intelligence
nydailynews.com — via GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC, 31 years, 6 months old, hosted on WordPress.com (Automattic)
PASS
nydailynews.com — via GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC, 31 years, 6 months old, hosted on WordPress.com (Automattic)
Info::
Domain registered until Mar 28, 2027 (11 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: GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC
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.
Info::
Hosting: WordPress.com (Automattic)
Got: AS2635
Domain expiry

285 days

March 28, 2027

SSL certificate

39 days

Issued by Let's Encrypt

Domain age

31 years, 6 months

Registered March 27, 1995

DNSSEC

Not enabled

Protects against DNS spoofing

Hosting

WordPress.com (Automattic)

ASN AS2635

192.0.66.144

Registrar

GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC

Unlocked 4 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 GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC
Created March 27, 1995 (31 years, 6 months ago)
Expires March 28, 2027 (11 months)
Last Updated April 7, 2026
Name Servers ns-1494.awsdns-58.org, ns-1929.awsdns-49.co.uk, ns-318.awsdns-39.com, ns-670.awsdns-19.net
DNSSEC Not enabled
Hosting
IP Address 192.0.66.144
ASN AS2635 (AUTOMATTIC - Automattic, Inc, US)
Provider WordPress.com (Automattic)
Data source: rdap (0.1s)

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 41 ms — DNS, TCP, TLS, TTFB, content transfer breakdown
PASS
DNS Lookup DNS Lookup — time to resolve the domain name to an IP address.
34 ms
TCP Connect TCP Connect — time to establish a TCP connection to the server.
1 ms
TLS Handshake TLS Handshake — time to complete the HTTPS encryption handshake.
4 ms
Time to First Byte Time to First Byte — how long the server takes to respond with the first byte of data.
42 ms
Total Time Total request time from DNS lookup through full response.
42 ms

Connection waterfall

DNS Lookup 34 ms TCP Connect 1 ms TLS Handshake 4 ms Server Processing 3 ms Content Transfer 0 ms
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