Infrastructure
· 9 checks — DNS, redirects, IPv6, crawlability, URL variants, and domain intelligence rolled into one auditable list.FIPv6 ReadinessActionIPv6 records exist but unreachableFIX
Having AAAA records but an unreachable server is worse than no AAAA — clients may experience delays before falling back to IPv4.
Advertising IPv6 (AAAA records) without a reachable server means IPv6-preferring clients silently fail every connection.
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Modern browsers prefer IPv6 if AAAA exists (Happy Eyeballs algorithm). If the IPv6 server isn't reachable, browsers fall back to IPv4 — but with seconds of added latency per request. Either fix IPv6 reachability or remove the AAAA records.
Source: RFC 8305 (Happy Eyeballs)
BRedirect Chain2 redirect(s), 84 ms totalREVIEW
https://sportingnews.com
32 ms · HTTP/1.1
https://www.sportingnews.com/
21 ms · HTTP/1.1
https://www.sportingnews.com/us
31 ms · HTTP/1.1 FINAL
| # | URL | Status | Time | Protocol | Server |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | https://sportingnews.com | 301 | 32 ms | HTTP/1.1 | cloudflare |
| 2 | https://www.sportingnews.com/ | 302 | 21 ms | HTTP/1.1 | cloudflare |
| 3 | https://www.sportingnews.com/us | 200 | 31 ms | HTTP/1.1 | cloudflare |
See the visual redirect chain in the HTTP Probe tab →
Each redirect adds latency. Try to minimize the chain to 1 hop.
Redirect chain — each hop adds latency; combine into one redirect where possible.
Source: Google Search Central / web.dev
If permanent, use 301 instead.
302 (Found) is for genuinely temporary redirects — if this redirect is permanent, switch to 301 to preserve SEO equity.
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Search engines treat 302 as temporary, keeping the original URL indexed and not transferring full link equity to the destination. Use 301 (Moved Permanently) for permanent redirects (HTTP→HTTPS, www-vs-non-www, URL restructures).
Source: Google Search Central
BTLS Certificate Expiry & Recommendations67 days until leaf cert expires — 3 issues to addressREVIEW
Certificate validity
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
BCDN & DeliveryCloudflareREVIEW
A+DNS Records2 A records, 9 ms lookupPASS
| A | 104.18.14.216, 104.18.15.216 |
| AAAA | 2606:4700::6812:fd8, 2606:4700::6812:ed8 |
| CNAME | — |
| NS | roxy.ns.cloudflare.com, sonny.ns.cloudflare.com |
| MX | 1 aspmx.l.google.com 5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com 5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com 10 aspmx2.googlemail.com 10 aspmx3.googlemail.com 10 aspmx4.googlemail.com |
| TXT | _globalsign-domain-verification=SQONiBgTxRVzPPtIHjei_IUGCiAa0KxoVWFw1QfVes ca3-011b6f7c4d1b4d3390a032f871be95e6 ca3-587af32f402843edac412a24b504d818 facebook-domain-verification=nhgmd6j21i84hnwue5xijmtruo870z globalsign-domain-verification=KaParXxs1OHDy7o8CMbPpHBN-2m_mzwdPqKMMQ66a6 google-site-verification=CdWx3rweJY_4ZzY6LLDfZ1DrYwVgLzhtvy4KLS5us7Y google-site-verification=R06TbkbxAmmAxtBJ36J87VhSZaiA4bRq2Nej2M0FYF8 tollbit-domain-verification=0d2cdadbb8cf64f90c9f941e328c2740a0f3318196d4d412257f... SPF v=spf1 include:aspmx.sailthru.com include:_spf.google.com include:amazonses.com ... |
| CAA | Lookup not available with standard resolver |
CAA record lookup requires a specialized DNS resolver. This check will be available in a future update.
Informational: CAA (Certification Authority Authorization) records weren't checked in this scan.
A+Crawlabilityrobots.txt present, sitemap with 4 URLsPASS
# The Sporting News is made available for your personal, non-commercial use subject to our Terms of Service:
# https://sportingnewsholdings.com/policies/terms-of-use/
# Use of any automated system of software, including use of any artificial intelligence or machine learning tool, model, system, algorithm, product or other technology which is intended or designed to gather or extract any data from The Sporting News website is strictly prohibited.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /api
Disallow: /api/url
Disallow: /api/url/article?uuid=*
Disallow: /px/
Disallow: /user
Disallow: /user/
Disallow: /service
Disallow: /service/
Disallow: /test/
Disallow: /nba-service/
Disallow: /module/nba-live-test
Disallow: /fantasy/player-updates?page=*
Disallow: /?page=*
Disallow: /zephr/*
Disallow: /blaize/*
User-agent: Googlebot
User-agent: Bingbot
User-agent: Slurp
User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /
User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /
User-agent: AmazonAdBot
Allow: /
#Other disallow rules
User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /
User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /
User-agent: archive.org_bot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Arquivo-web-crawler
Disallow: /
User-agent: AwarioRssBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: AwarioSmartBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /
User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /
User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
Disallow: /
User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: europarchive.org
Disallow: /
User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: FriendlyCrawler
Disallow: /
User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: heritrix
Disallow: /
User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /
User-agent: ia_archiver-web.archive.org
Disallow: /
User-agent: ImagesiftBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: LinkArchiver
Disallow: /
User-agent: magpie-crawler
Disallow: /
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
User-agent: meta-externalagent
Disallow: /
User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
User-agent: meta-externalfetcher
Disallow: /
User-agent: news-please
Disallow: /
User-agent: Nicecrawler
Disallow: /
User-agent: omgili
Disallow: /
User-agent: omgilibot
Disallow: /
User-agent: peer39_crawler
User-agent: peer39_crawler/1.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: Primalbot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Quora-Bot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Scrapy
Disallow: /
User-agent: Timpibot
Disallow: /
User-agent: TurnitinBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: web-archive-net.com.bot
Disallow: /
User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /
User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
User-agent: meta-externalagent
User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
User-agent: meta-externalfetcher
Disallow: /
# sitemaps
Sitemap: https://www.sportingnews.com/mx/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.sportingnews.com/mx/news-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.sportingnews.com/us-es/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.sportingnews.com/us-es/news-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.sportingnews.com/br/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.sportingnews.com/br/news-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.sportingnews.com/th/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.sportingnews.com/th/news-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.sportingnews.com/in/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.sportingnews.com/in/news-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.sportingnews.com/jp/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.sportingnews.com/jp/news-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.sportingnews.com/es/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.sportingnews.com/es/news-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.sportingnews.com/ar/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.sportingnews.com/ar/news-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.sportingnews.com/us/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.sportingnews.com/us/news-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.sportingnews.com/ca/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.sportingnews.com/ca/news-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.sportingnews.com/au/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.sportingnews.com/au/news-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.sportingnews.com/uk/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.sportingnews.com/uk/news-sitemap.xml
A+URL Variantswww/non-www, trailing slash, HTTP→HTTPSPASS
www / non-www
Preferred variant: non-www
HTTP → HTTPS
Consistent
A+Domain Intelligencesportingnews.com — via SafeNames Ltd., 30 years, 10 months old, hosted on CloudflarePASS
158 days
November 21, 2026
67 days
Issued by Google Trust Services
30 years, 10 months
Registered November 22, 1995
Not enabled
Protects against DNS spoofing
Cloudflare
ASN AS13335
104.18.15.216
SafeNames Ltd.
Expiry timeline
Recommended actions
- Enable DNSSEC to protect visitors from DNS spoofing
- Enable registrar lock (clientTransferProhibited) to block unauthorized domain transfers
DNSSEC protects against DNS spoofing attacks. While not required, enabling DNSSEC adds an additional layer of security. Contact your DNS provider to enable it.
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.
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