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· 9 checks — DNS, redirects, IPv6, crawlability, URL variants, and domain intelligence rolled into one auditable list.
SCORE
84
GRADE
B
FIX
0
REVIEW
3
PASS
5
INFO
1
Probed from Madrid, Spain
301 Moved Permanently
Checks
9
5 PASS 3 REVIEW
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::
HTTP version does not redirect to HTTPS
Got: HTTP 0 Expected: 301 redirect to HTTPS

www / non-www

https://www.washingtonpost.com/
200https://washingtonpost.com/

HTTP → HTTPS

http://washingtonpost.com/

HTTP version does not redirect to HTTPS

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

Certificate validity

150
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, 77 ms lookup
PASS
4 A records, 77 ms lookup
Info::
Resolves to 4 IPv4 address(es)
Got: 52.84.174.20, 52.84.174.87, 52.84.174.99, 52.84.174.76
Info::
No IPv6 (AAAA) records
Info::
8 nameserver(s) configured
Got: sdns34.ultradns.com, ns-404.awsdns-50.com, ns-1840.awsdns-38.co.uk, sdns34.ultradns.biz, sdns34.ultradns.net, ns-666.awsdns-19.net, ns-1027.awsdns-00.org, sdns34.ultradns.org
Info::
2 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: 77 ms
Got: 77 ms
A52.84.174.20, 52.84.174.87, 52.84.174.99, 52.84.174.76
AAAA—
CNAME—
NSsdns34.ultradns.com, ns-404.awsdns-50.com, ns-1840.awsdns-38.co.uk, sdns34.ultradns.biz, sdns34.ultradns.net, ns-666.awsdns-19.net, ns-1027.awsdns-00.org, sdns34.ultradns.org
MX
10 mxa-001a3c01.gslb.pphosted.com
10 mxb-001a3c01.gslb.pphosted.com
TXT
google-site-verification=MFW4gdPYqGnhzWA4FutyUzH4M-jIpbyJ3ml-l2UNyM4
slack-domain-verification=YsnaUOhPU4Y6dCz5a3TqBIs4DxEXrVFbuKbGFRyS
MS=ms58521745
globalsign-domain-verification=8frsHcE2ag-0ccaaP5BTpPmUJC8ob8pdjDQchfAWzD
google-site-verification=6Bi3yUCN2g3lzvqapLfrbgkQxob5YCjmZidGa2qiM4g
_dhwsbe1t7yht6p4dsc72mcajq9aaum9
knowbe4-site-verification=e04590e121eee5fbc18ada6449219119
f3de1c77b72748ff92a68f88f4d93dfd
google-site-verification=xLI97dy4D9FGihhl23twW5HHhVSmpnr2nWComZhpQVo
SPF v=spf1 ip4:198.72.14.0/23 ip4:192.72.255.0/24 ip4:54.156.98.51 ip4:54.210.51.17 ...
brave-ledger-verification=28c1597498b6eafc29aac1f3a42f31559dfe03a832058ead6f684a...
google-site-verification=Xq6gcVYYZJtb2DQN6h2bo-hkrdmZpcdAKO8CeYl8290
_globalsign-domain-verification=SQONiBgTxRVzPPtIHjei_IUGCiAa0KxoVWFw1QfVes
rovag_verification_token=C2158E1BE1D041B78CC57ED72101FF6C
mBd2513ESDgG6ZfaSrFYw4WaOC2b0M21Ehl8KWI3GmgTDpfYKwGuBum8ivsayoYLzVCetyXDieRUdW4q...
_globalsign-domain-verification=R1bvWDvJUF1gpXlmc7Q3deFwpZciil5dpJR4t-a8XM
google-site-verification=qcYuOKvxobypPYmqzzrcw5KiwtpfLgdEEt-HwMfLwvo
CAALookup not available with standard resolver
Resolved in 77 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
0 redirect(s), 56 ms total
PASS
0 redirect(s), 56 ms total

https://washingtonpost.com

56 ms · HTTP/1.1 FINAL

#URLStatusTimeProtocolServer
1https://washingtonpost.com30156 msHTTP/1.1AmazonS3
A
Crawlability
robots.txt present, no sitemap
PASS
robots.txt present, no sitemap
Info::
robots.txt is present
Got: 5468 bytes
Info::
No sitemap.xml found
A sitemap helps search engines discover and index your pages more efficiently.
Info::
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 5468 B Sitemaps referenced 7 User-agents Amazonbot, Bytespider, Diffbot, SemrushBot, ArchiveBot, Claude-Web, Primalbot, CCBot, Applebot-Extended, ClaudeBot, cohere-training-data-crawler, web-archive-net.com.bot, heritrix, LinkArchiver, omgili, omgilibot, PerplexityBot, europarchive.org, ia_archiver, *, anthropic-ai, archive.org_bot, AwarioSmartBot, DataForSeoBot, AhrefsBot, Arquivo-web-crawler, AwarioRssBot, FacebookBot, ImagesiftBot, Nicecrawler, Twitterbot, ia_archiver-web.archive.org, meta-externalagent, YandexBot, meta-externalfetcher Blocking No — crawling allowed
User-agent: *
Disallow: /*_print.html
Disallow: /*_email.html
Disallow: /*_singlePage.html
Disallow: /*_allComments.html
Disallow: /*_jsn.json
Disallow: /*_jsonpStatic.js
Disallow: /*_nitf.xml
Disallow: /*_newsml.html
Disallow: /*_qa.html
Disallow: /*_meta.xml
Disallow: /*_jsnp.js
Disallow: /*_json.json
Disallow: /*_search.html
Disallow: /*_jsonp.js
Disallow: /*_jsnpStatic.js
Disallow: /*_rss.xml
Disallow: /*_mobile.mobile
Disallow: /*_mobile.xml
Disallow: /*_allCommentsClassicBlog.html
Disallow: /*_seo.html
Disallow: /*_nimbusJson.json
Disallow: /*_nimbusJsonp.js
Disallow: /*_nimbusJsonpStatic.js
Disallow: /*_modal.html
Disallow: /todays_paper/
Disallow: /rw/WashingtonPost/Content/Epaper/
Disallow: /ac2/
Disallow: /blogs/slow-ride/
Disallow: /local/blogsandcolumns/slow-ride-story-tanked
Disallow: /local/blogsandcolumns/slow-ride-story-achenblog
Disallow: /local/blogsandcolumns/slow-ride-stream-tanked
Disallow: /local/blogsandcolumns/slow-ride-front
Disallow: /utils/
Disallow: /jobs/JS_JobSearchResult
Disallow: /jobs/UpdateJobEmployerCounterServlet
Disallow: /jobs/JS_Login
Disallow: /jobs/EU_UpdateJobEmployerCounter
Disallow: /blogs/nationals-journal-beta/
Disallow: /blogs/test/
Disallow: /posttv-beta/
Disallow: /posttv/sponsored-video/
Disallow: /posttv/c/trendex/
Disallow: /posttv/c/video_search/
Disallow: /posttv/posttv/trendex
Disallow: /posttv/c/embed/
Disallow: /rweb/
Disallow: /wp-stat/vrroom/
Disallow: /classic-apps/
Disallow: /news/test/
Disallow: /tablet/
Disallow: /news/tablet/
Disallow: /sf/test/
Disallow: /news/test-liveblog/
Disallow: /pb/
Allow: /pb/resources/
Allow: /pb/gr/
Allow: /pb/resource/
Disallow: /homepage-video-test
Disallow: /testpage-forhomepage
Disallow: /knowmore
Disallow: /test/
Disallow: /sslsingle
Disallow: /amphtml/news/test/
Disallow: /amphtml/blogs/test/
Disallow: /amphtml/classic-apps/
Disallow: /amphtml/utils/
Disallow: /newsletter/
Disallow: /wp-dyn/
Disallow: /wp-srv/
Disallow: /bandito/
Disallow: /Fragment/SysConfig/
Disallow: /recipes/search/
Disallow: /talk/
Disallow: /wp-stat/ad/
Disallow: /*?*outputType=comment
Disallow: /pwapi-proxy/pwproxy/*
Disallow: /pwapiv2/
Disallow: /*?*outputType=accessibility
Disallow: /wp-adv/
Disallow: /newssearch/
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /gdpr-consent/
Disallow: /*?*outputType=tracking
Disallow: /tetro/
Disallow: /comments/
Disallow: /comments
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /s/*
Disallow: /embed/
Disallow: /native/
Disallow: /subscribe/braintree/
Disallow: /subscribe/enterpriseportal/
Disallow: /subscribe/foryouapi/
Disallow: /subscribe/lagoon/
Disallow: /subscribe/offers/service/
Disallow: /subscribe/onsiteapi/
Disallow: /subscribe/paywall/
Disallow: /subscribe/person/
Disallow: /subscribe/preferenceapi/
Disallow: /subscribe/subscriptionapi/
Disallow: /subscribe/user/
Disallow: /subscribe/signin/
Disallow: /subscribe/signup/
Disallow: /wpost/proxy
Disallow: /ehf/
Disallow: /ehf/*
Disallow: /subscribe/logging/*
Disallow: /blogs/*
Disallow: /gog/*
Disallow: /arcio/fact-checker/
Disallow: /recipes/*?q=
Disallow: /cookie-policy/
Disallow: /discussions/2021/09/13/cookie-policy/
Disallow: /discussions/2021/09/13/cookie-policy-eea/
Disallow: /privacy-policy/

User-agent: Twitterbot
Allow: /posttv-beta/
Disallow: /amphtml/*

User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /licensing-syndication
Disallow: /licensing-syndication/*

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /
Allow: /wp-apps/imrs.php


# Disallow Rules

User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /
Allow: /creativegroup/

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /
Allow: /creativegroup/

User-agent: archive.org_bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ArchiveBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Arquivo-web-crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: AwarioRssBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AwarioSmartBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /
Allow: /creativegroup/

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /
Allow: /creativegroup/

User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /
Allow: /creativegroup/

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /
Allow: /creativegroup/

User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
Disallow: /
Allow: /creativegroup/

User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /
Allow: /creativegroup/

User-agent: europarchive.org
Disallow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /
Allow: /creativegroup/

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: meta-externalagent
Disallow: /
Allow: /creativegroup/

User-agent: meta-externalfetcher
Disallow: /
Allow: /creativegroup/

User-agent: Nicecrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: omgili
Disallow: /
Allow: /creativegroup/

User-agent: omgilibot
Disallow: /
Allow: /creativegroup/

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /
Allow: /creativegroup/

User-agent: Primalbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: web-archive-net.com.bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: YandexBot
Disallow: /
Allow: /creativegroup/

Sitemap: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sitemaps/sitemap.xml.gz
Sitemap: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sitemaps/news-sitemap.xml.gz
Sitemap: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sitemaps/author-sitemap.xml.gz
Sitemap: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sitemaps/section-sitemap.xml.gz
Sitemap: https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/results/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.washingtonpost.com/arcio/sitemap/video/index/
Sitemap: https://www.washingtonpost.com/creativegroup/sitemaps/sitemap.xml
sitemap.xml No sitemap found

No sitemap found

Adding a sitemap helps search engines discover your pages.

A+
HTTP Probe Timing
Total 83 ms — DNS, TCP, TLS, TTFB, content transfer breakdown
PASS
DNS Lookup DNS Lookup — time to resolve the domain name to an IP address.
29 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.
20 ms
Time to First Byte Time to First Byte — how long the server takes to respond with the first byte of data.
83 ms
Total Time Total request time from DNS lookup through full response.
83 ms

Connection waterfall

DNS Lookup 29 ms TCP Connect 16 ms TLS Handshake 20 ms Server Processing 18 ms Content Transfer 0 ms
A+
CDN & Delivery
AWS CloudFront (Hit from cloudfront)
PASS
AWS CloudFront (Hit from cloudfront)
Info::
Site is served via AWS CloudFront CDN (edge: CDG50-P1)
Got: x-amz-cf-id: iQ0F5vIWeUoJERlg4OPFJzUs8qoeMTDPyQVzJ3ZHZ_EjvJn5uypAHw==
Info::
CDN cache status: Hit from cloudfront
CDN Detected: AWS CloudFront
Provider AWS CloudFront Cache Status Hit from cloudfront Evidence x-amz-cf-id: iQ0F5vIWeUoJERlg4OPFJzUs8qoeMTDPyQVzJ3ZHZ_EjvJn5uypAHw==
Domain Intelligence
Domain intelligence data not available
INFO
Domain intelligence data not available

RDAP and WHOIS lookup both failed

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