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· 9 checks — DNS, redirects, IPv6, crawlability, URL variants, and domain intelligence rolled into one auditable list.
SCORE
77
GRADE
C
FIX
1
REVIEW
6
PASS
2
INFO
0
Probed from Singapore, Singapore
301 Moved Permanently
Checks
9
2 PASS 6 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.

B
Redirect Chain
1 redirect(s), 1115 ms total
REVIEW
1 redirect(s), 1115 ms total
Info::
Single redirect
Got: https://seattlepi.com → https://www.seattlepi.com/ (301)
Info::
WWW normalization redirect
Warning::
Redirect overhead: 1115 ms total
Got: 1115 ms

https://seattlepi.com

1078 ms · HTTP/1.1

301

https://www.seattlepi.com/

38 ms · HTTP/1.1 FINAL

#URLStatusTimeProtocolServer
1https://seattlepi.com3011078 msHTTP/1.1Apache/2.4.58
2https://www.seattlepi.com/20038 msHTTP/1.1

See the visual redirect chain in the HTTP Probe tab →

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
Crawlability
robots.txt present, sitemap with 0 URLs
REVIEW
robots.txt present, sitemap with 0 URLs
Info::
robots.txt is present
Got: 1009 bytes
Info::
sitemap.xml is present
Warning::
sitemap.xml contains invalid XML
Search engines may not be able to parse the sitemap. Fix XML validation errors.
Warning::
sitemap.xml is empty — no URLs found
An empty sitemap provides no value. Add <url> entries for your pages.
Info::
robots.txt references sitemap

Search engines may not be able to parse the sitemap. Fix XML validation errors.

Why this matters

An unparseable sitemap is silently ignored by Google — the URLs it advertises are never queued for crawl.

Learn more ▾

Google's sitemap parser is strict about XML validity. A single unescaped `&` or unclosed tag invalidates the whole file. Run your sitemap through a validator (Search Console's Sitemaps report flags it) and fix the offending entry. Most generators escape correctly; mistakes usually come from manually-written entries.

Source: sitemaps.org / Google Search Central

An empty sitemap provides no value. Add <url> entries for your pages.

Why this matters

An empty sitemap signals 'no content to index' to Google — actively harmful versus having no sitemap at all.

Learn more ▾

Google compares URLs in the sitemap against URLs it has crawled. An empty sitemap on a site with thousands of pages signals abandonment. Either populate it correctly (most CMSes auto-generate) or delete the file and let Google crawl normally.

Source: Google Search Central / sitemaps.org

robots.txt 200 OK
Size 1009 B Sitemaps referenced 2 User-agents omgili, claude-user, cohere-ai, diffbot, webzio-extended, bytespider, claude-web, friendlycrawler, omgilibot, perplexity-user, youbot, anthropic-ai, applebot-extended, ccbot, claudebot, duckassistbot, scrapy, timpibot, kangaroo-bot, ai2bot-dolma, perplexitybot, AmazonAdBot, * Blocking No — crawling allowed
Sitemap: https://www.seattlepi.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.seattlepi.com/sitemap_news.xml

User-agent: ai2bot-dolma
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: applebot-extended
User-agent: bytespider
User-agent: ccbot
User-agent: claude-user
User-agent: claude-web
User-agent: claudebot
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: diffbot
User-agent: duckassistbot
User-agent: friendlycrawler
User-agent: omgili
User-agent: omgilibot
User-agent: perplexity-user
User-agent: perplexitybot
User-agent: scrapy
User-agent: timpibot
User-agent: youbot
User-agent: webzio-extended
User-agent: kangaroo-bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AmazonAdBot
Allow: /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /business/press-releases/
Disallow: /style/beauty/hearstmagazines/
Disallow: /style/fashion/hearstmagazines/
Disallow: /living/relationships/hearstmagazines/
Disallow: /homeandgarden/home/hearstmagazines/
Disallow: /living/wellness/hearstmagazines/
Disallow: /mockup/
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /technology/businessinsider/
Disallow: /413gkwMT/
sitemap.xml 200 OK
Type URL Set URLs 0 entries Valid XML No
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.seattlepi.com/
200https://seattlepi.com/

Inconsistent — duplicate content risk

HTTP → HTTPS

301http://seattlepi.com/ → https://www.seattlepi.com/

Consistent

B
HTTP Probe Timing
Total 1147 ms — DNS, TCP, TLS, TTFB, content transfer breakdown
REVIEW
DNS Lookup DNS Lookup — time to resolve the domain name to an IP address.
373 ms
TCP Connect TCP Connect — time to establish a TCP connection to the server.
258 ms
TLS Handshake TLS Handshake — time to complete the HTTPS encryption handshake.
259 ms
Time to First Byte Time to First Byte — how long the server takes to respond with the first byte of data.
1.15 s
Total Time Total request time from DNS lookup through full response.
1.15 s

Connection waterfall

DNS Lookup 373 ms TCP Connect 258 ms TLS Handshake 259 ms Server Processing 257 ms Content Transfer 0 ms
B
TLS Certificate Expiry & Recommendations
33 days until leaf cert expires — 3 issues to address
REVIEW

Certificate validity

33
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
4 A records, 1066 ms lookup
PASS
4 A records, 1066 ms lookup
Info::
Resolves to 4 IPv4 address(es)
Got: 34.197.233.251, 34.198.86.45, 34.204.119.243, 34.235.224.231
Info::
No IPv6 (AAAA) records
Info::
6 nameserver(s) configured
Got: ns1.hearstnp.com, ns6.hearstnp.com, ns5.hearstnp.com, ns4.hearstnp.com, ns3.hearstnp.com, ns2.hearstnp.com
Info::
1 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
Warning::
DNS resolution is slow (1066 ms)
Slow DNS adds latency to every page load. Consider a faster DNS provider.
Got: 1066 ms
A34.197.233.251, 34.198.86.45, 34.204.119.243, 34.235.224.231
AAAA—
CNAME—
NSns1.hearstnp.com, ns6.hearstnp.com, ns5.hearstnp.com, ns4.hearstnp.com, ns3.hearstnp.com, ns2.hearstnp.com
MX
10 seattlepi-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
TXT
tollbit-domain-verification=0b07466e4113da1379eb3d448c5bddc2a00686708f142a7c260a...
google-site-verification=bcIXwgwdiCYxKi8bJuST1_aJEFKunUp_0CaIuKNKzS0
6iU5Ra8aKG7DarY5Jb66AdUCQXkm1ebvSJdbWxlPW5zJwaomqmBqgG2rRfgpWri6WT0ZlnaCPWH5yKRw...
MS=ms58962836
BSI103498586397
facebook-domain-verification=icrkaur3pimrbkluwox983vgrqsc6b
_globalsign-domain-verification=Iiihy-iv_vLdlIMtHvh-aCdqO2T53oCoknhW44njXn
facebook-domain-verification=c93hqiadq77at28ozqa0086u6kcrrj
adobe-idp-site-verification=3ebb0754e0941b0fd3e9cfe346802f5b6321a2a9bce74d7ffbce...
google-site-verification=91ob8eyr5JpjdyHWmcNWWBECe3I22ernxeVfbHLOmg8
globalsign-domain-verification=KaParXxs1OHDy7o8CMbPpHBN-2m_mzwdPqKMMQ66a6
google-site-verification=4RqIe5IESs1uvGNGstnXhX95gzAtQxT8plJ-Nnf9gxA
google-site-verification=KUJEgfM3X4ga-0QdFbsc65OyxUwwa3iu0Xuv9v8h0wc
google-site-verification=biVGkUuP9VaLqfh038ISDvJCbMescMmpMcynWvUnOmA
google-site-verification=sNO_w4ke0jKHh81PrThw2_bKGKIpJF_hE9FSydxHqYM
google-site-verification=yJoBH5lkKR5UwBxMZUSz4d6yxTD9O8fGIv1WfXseFJQ
google-site-verification=4kV5OSeX2iftotGA9dMzOWpo8izn6O7nMS_MaJaN_mg
google-site-verification=af4olFmfc9Gi403QI3rbP2XZTm1vFOlHyEtAXkiLhHw
85d128ee2d21412fa477db6941750e5e
google-site-verification=AV83Pxlph62VS0IDdL_V4qTb8hH332EO-qPXdbi3bZM
SPF v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:mail.azure.localedge.com ip4:...
CAALookup not available with standard resolver
Resolved in 1066 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.

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

A+
Domain Intelligence
seattlepi.com — via CSC Corporate Domains, Inc., 27 years, 5 months old, hosted on AWS
PASS
seattlepi.com — via CSC Corporate Domains, Inc., 27 years, 5 months old, hosted on AWS
Info::
Domain registered until Mar 25, 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: 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.
Info::
Hosting: AWS
Got: AS14618
Domain expiry

253 days

March 25, 2027

SSL certificate

33 days

Issued by Let's Encrypt

Domain age

27 years, 5 months

Registered March 25, 1999

DNSSEC

Not enabled

Protects against DNS spoofing

Hosting

AWS

ASN AS14618

34.198.86.45

Registrar

CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.

Unlocked 6 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 March 25, 1999 (27 years, 5 months ago)
Expires March 25, 2027 (11 months)
Last Updated March 21, 2026
Name Servers ns1.hearstnp.com, ns2.hearstnp.com, ns3.hearstnp.com, ns4.hearstnp.com, ns5.hearstnp.com, ns6.hearstnp.com
DNSSEC Not enabled
Hosting
IP Address 34.198.86.45
ASN AS14618 (AMAZON-AES - Amazon.com, Inc., US)
Provider AWS
Data source: rdap (0.9s)

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

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