Palo Alto URL Checker
Websites are classified based on site content, features, and safety. Visit Test A Site to see how the website is currently categorised, if you feel the category is incorrect you can also use Test A Site to submit a website category change request which, if approved by our third-party web content filtering company, will update the school internet filtering rules within 24 hours.
Brightcloud URL Checker
To confirm the category you can use a secondary URL check site - Brightcloud has a good reputation.
https://www.brightcloud.com/tools/url-ip-lookup.php
Wikipedia can also provide a useful source of information abut a site,
PaloAlto URL Categories
Descriptions of all PaloAlto URL categories, and the site risk classification is documented here:
Block Categories
The following categories are blocked for pupils at Lyonsdown:
- abortion
- abused-drugs
- adult
- command-and-control
- cryptocurrency
- dating
- dynamic-dns
- extremism
- gambling
- hacking
- malware
- marijuana
- not-resolved
- nudity
- parked
- peer-to-peer
- phishing
- proxy-avoidance-and-anonymizers
- questionable
- ransomware
- scanning-activity
- sex-education
- social-networking
- unknown
- weapons
- web-advertisements
- web-based-email
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