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honorlibrary.org · 25 checks, all shown · two readings on 24 Aug 2026, 9:11 PM and 10:14 PM

This is a preview built from two real readings taken the same evening. Once watching begins, this page updates every minute, history fills in day by day, and stale numbers say their age.

100% answered when checked 12 of 12 probes across two readings, every city, both times. A small denominator, said out loud: once watching begins this becomes 1,440 checks a day.
Website100%all good
Name lookup100%all good
Email setup100%all good
Domain & certificate100%cert 65d · domain 196d
all goodneeded a humanbefore watching began
First answer, from six cities, latest reading, 10:14 PM
Los Angeles, US0.11s
São Paulo, BR0.06s
Falkenstein, DE0.07s
Tokyo, JP0.07s
Sydney, AU0.06s
Lagos, NG0.15s

Metrics and trends

Each number from the first reading beside the latest one. Once watching runs daily, these grow into week and month views.
Metric9:11 PM10:14 PMTrend
Fastest city, first answer0.06s0.06ssteady
Slowest city, first answer0.15s0.15ssteady
Email records in place3 of 46 of 6improved
Browser protections on6 of 66 of 6steady
Certificate runway65 days65 dayscounts down daily
Domain runway196 days196 dayscounts down daily

Everything watched

All of it from one address. Nothing was installed on the site and no password was handed over.

Availability

Home pageanswers with the right contentall good
Privacy pageupall good
Terms pageupall good
Plain httppolitely forwarded to the secure addressall good
www variantanswers alongside the bare domainall good

Reachability

Name lookupthe address resolves cleanlyall good
Second opinionan independent resolver agreesall good
Modern networksreachable over IPv6all good

Email

Sender record (SPF)says who may send as this domainpresent
Signing keys (DKIM)mail is signedpresent
Forgery policy (DMARC)monitoring mode, added between the two readingspresent
Mail routing (MX)incoming mail has somewhere to gopresent

Browser protections, all six by name

Insist on the padlockthe browser remembers to only ever use the secure connection (HSTS)on
Refuse to be framedno other site can wrap this one in an invisible frame to steal clickson
No file-type guessingthe browser takes files at their word instead of guessing (nosniff)on
Content rulesthe page declares what it is allowed to load, and the browser enforces it (CSP)on
Referrer courtesywhen someone follows a link away, only the site name travels with them, not the full page address (Referrer-Policy)on
Feature permissionsthe site declares it will never ask the browser for the camera, microphone, or location (Permissions-Policy)on

APIs and machine endpoints

robots.txtthe file that tells search engines the rules200, plain text
Sitemapthe index machines read200, XML

Trust signals, optional but worth knowing

Note for researchersa standard file telling security researchers who to contact (security.txt)not set up, optional
Certificate rules (CAA)a record naming which authorities may issue certificates for this domainnot set up, optional
Signed name lookups (DNSSEC)cryptographic proof that DNS answers were not tampered withnot set up, optional

Domain and certificate

Certificaterenews by 28 October 202665 days away
Domain registrationpaid through 8 March 2027196 days away

Reading log

What each reading found, and what changed in between. On the live product this becomes the incident history.
First reading, 9:11 PMBaseline set. One finding: no DMARC email record. Everything else green, and the site answered in under a sixth of a second from every continent.
Between readingsThe DMARC record was added and its reporting address confirmed working.
Second reading, 10:14 PMEmail records four of four. Speed unchanged: this is the fastest site of the three, served whole from the nearest edge.
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Nothing is outstanding. The one finding from the first reading was closed within the hour.