Infrastructure - https://yorku.ca BeaverCheck Audit

D

URL Variants

Action

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

FIX

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 version does not redirect to HTTPS

Got: HTTP 302 Expected: 301 redirect to HTTPS

www / non-www

200https://www.yorku.ca/

200https://yorku.ca/

Inconsistent — duplicate content risk

HTTP → HTTPS

302http://yorku.ca/ → http://www.yorku.ca/

HTTP version does not redirect to HTTPS

D

CDN & Delivery

Action

No CDN detected

FIX

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), 2616 ms total

REVIEW

1 redirect(s), 2616 ms total

Single redirect

Got: https://yorku.ca → https://www.yorku.ca/ (302)

WWW normalization redirect

Uses 302 (temporary) redirect

If permanent, use 301 instead.

Got: https://yorku.ca

Redirect overhead: 2616 ms total

Got: 2616 ms

https://yorku.ca

944 ms · HTTP/1.1

302

https://www.yorku.ca/

1672 ms · HTTP/1.1 FINAL

#	URL	Status	Time	Protocol	Server
1	https://yorku.ca	302	944 ms	HTTP/1.1	Apache/2.4.41 (Ubuntu)
2	https://www.yorku.ca/	200	1672 ms	HTTP/1.1	Apache/2.4.52 (Ubuntu)

See the visual redirect chain in the HTTP Probe tab →

If permanent, use 301 instead.

Why this matters

302 (Found) is for genuinely temporary redirects — if this redirect is permanent, switch to 301 to preserve SEO equity.

Learn more ▾

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

C

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

B

HTTP Probe Timing

Total 926 ms — DNS, TCP, TLS, TTFB, content transfer breakdown

REVIEW

DNS Lookup

234 ms

TCP Connect

230 ms

TLS Handshake

233 ms

Time to First Byte

926 ms

Total Time

927 ms

Connection waterfall

DNS Lookup 234 ms TCP Connect 230 ms TLS Handshake 233 ms Server Processing 230 ms Content Transfer 0 ms

B

TLS Certificate Expiry & Recommendations

157 days until leaf cert expires — 3 issues to address

REVIEW

Certificate validity

157

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, 1378 ms lookup

PASS

1 A records, 1378 ms lookup

Resolves to 1 IPv4 address(es)

Got: 130.63.236.137

Single A record — no DNS redundancy

Multiple A records provide failover if one server goes down.

No IPv6 (AAAA) records

5 nameserver(s) configured

Got: hanna.cac.washington.edu, ns2.d-zone.ca, ns1.d-zone.ca, dns11.ipns.yorku.ca, dns21.ipns.yorku.ca

1 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 (1378 ms)

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

Got: 1378 ms

A	130.63.236.137
AAAA	—
CNAME	—
NS	hanna.cac.washington.edu, ns2.d-zone.ca, ns1.d-zone.ca, dns11.ipns.yorku.ca, dns21.ipns.yorku.ca
MX	15 yorku-ca.mail.protection.outlook.com
TXT	gNl6dE73GfizSXBdh9sRRbZRYK66p3/GzA40v0Bh5wo= google-site-verification=HCqXPuSJti1JMz9WYfpAQomuDBezBcVbOX3DH4OMDNg ol6q984dvqv2gllffi7fv21r19 mailerlite-domain-verification=ac67b0ffb481036fe564c6495b96b1c1b2299abd MS=ms91133040 google-site-verification=ZmYEEGrmT5apEYnqA9LZy1jKNVi6wgdAqWgwy9brI6s hg47hr7cojknu36l8ps5800lb0 m22j00lqrdkp3bjq1a8ehj9nm6 bcn=388AE4E0-AD3F-11ED-8D65-B9F5B0A70446 SPF v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:aspmx.pardot.com include:spf.y... google-site-verification=8PFCPPXjRT010o3J-VKHd3ew98mCwGcL9uKs4KrKISg google-site-verification=cPuJTkAgSeqoXnKMKvF6hBmpALLXu5f-FuxRjavZMpE Value = google-site-verification=PKu41b2bWAavyky4USjpvc6tdT0VM9KuHNsrsryxsHM g5lkd8zr5kj5zkgx5zm1sz99l8g4969d MS=E62E792EF3ED047BBB5E588DE685B36CF0BEE6FB asv=71f0e229bbaa2d7e01c952199aa1aab2 google-site-verification=CY8RxdePRoy9XzYsVqBEZeHHh_xgop91RlaHP5IUfqk RU6OXF90HJ0A3IQBOAT5W78SFY7ZKHXENV5EAM6P6 dvc=gNl6dE73GfizSXBdh9sRRbZRYK66p3/GzA40v0Bh5wo= Foxit-domain-verification=a96fee5e2d0bac7a1d5bb971b81487fe
CAA	Lookup not available with standard resolver

Resolved in 1378 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

A+

Crawlability

robots.txt present, sitemap with 4 URLs

PASS

robots.txt present, sitemap with 4 URLs

robots.txt is present

Got: 4450 bytes

sitemap.xml is present

sitemap.xml is valid XML

sitemap.xml contains 4 entries

Sitemap index with 4 child sitemaps

robots.txt references sitemap

robots.txt 200 OK

Size 4450 B Sitemaps referenced 68 User-agents * Blocking No — crawling allowed

# START YOAST BLOCK
# ---------------------------
User-agent: *
Disallow:

Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/digitalexperiencehub/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/about/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/aifprojects/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/vptl/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/unit/cpa/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/edu/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/health/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/science/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/partnerships/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/president/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/scld/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/dfa/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/study/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/laps/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/facilities/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/unit/gcrp/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/foodservices/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/transportation/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/housing/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/science/biology/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/science/mathstats/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/riskmanagement/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/alumniandfriends/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/c4/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/global-engagement/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/finance/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/safety/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/cvr/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/ssrp/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/orientation/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/labour/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/secretariat/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/glendon/futurestudents/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/glendon/futurestudents/discover/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/glendon/biology/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/glendon/businesseconomics/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/glendon/canadianstudies/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/glendon/communications/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/glendon/economics/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/glendon/bed/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/glendon/englishstudies/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/glendon/frenchstudies/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/glendon/genderwomensstudies/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/glendon/history/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/glendon/internationalstudies/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/glendon/businessinternational/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/glendon/linguisticslanguagestudies/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/glendon/mathematics/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/glendon/philosophy/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/glendon/politicalscience/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/glendon/psychology/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/glendon/sexualitystudies/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/glendon/sociology/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/glendon/spanish-and-latin-american-cultures-and-societies/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/glendon/translation/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/glendon/undecidedmajor/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/glendon/certificates/sbpc/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/glendon/certificates/publichistory/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/laps-child/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/health-child/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/dighr/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/gradstudies/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/science/physics/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/science/chemistry/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/laps/shrm/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/laps/huma/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.yorku.ca/laps/sas/sitemap_index.xml
# ---------------------------
# END YOAST BLOCK

sitemap.xml 200 OK

Type Sitemap Index URLs 4 entries Valid XML Yes

Child Sitemaps:

A+

Domain Intelligence

yorku.ca — via Webnames.ca Inc., 25 years, 10 months old, hosted on YORKU-AS - York University, CA

PASS

yorku.ca — via Webnames.ca Inc., 25 years, 10 months old, hosted on YORKU-AS - York University, CA

Domain registered until Feb 14, 2035 (8 years, 11 months remaining)

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.

Registrar: Webnames.ca Inc.

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.

Hosting: YORKU-AS - York University, CA

Got: AS802

Domain expiry

3133 days

February 14, 2035

SSL certificate

157 days

Issued by GlobalSign nv-sa

Domain age

25 years, 10 months

Registered October 6, 2000

DNSSEC

Not enabled

Protects against DNS spoofing

Hosting

YORKU-AS - York University, CA

ASN AS802

130.63.236.137

Registrar

Webnames.ca Inc.

Unlocked 3 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 Webnames.ca Inc.

Created October 6, 2000 (25 years, 10 months ago)

Expires February 14, 2035 (8 years, 11 months)

Last Updated April 16, 2026

Name Servers dns11.ipns.yorku.ca, dns21.ipns.yorku.ca, hanna.cac.washington.edu

DNSSEC Not enabled

Registrant York University

Hosting

IP Address 130.63.236.137

ASN AS802 (YORKU-AS - York University, CA)

Provider YORKU-AS - York University, CA

Data source: rdap (1.4s)

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