Cloudflare Healthchecks
What is Cloudflare Healthchecks?
About
Cloudflare Healthchecks is an SEO crawler. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please contact us. You can see how often Cloudflare Healthchecks visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics.
Expected Behavior
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) crawlers do not adhere to a fixed visitation schedule for websites. The frequency of visits varies widely based on several factors, including the search keywords it ranks for, and how many other websites link to it.
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Insights
Top Website Robots.txts
Country of Origin
Global Traffic
The percentage of all internet traffic coming from SEO Crawlers
Robots.txt
Should I Block Cloudflare Healthchecks?
Probably not, especially if you benefit from an SEO service yourself. However, you might choose to block them if you're concerned about things like server resource usage.
How Do I Block Cloudflare Healthchecks?
You can block Cloudflare Healthchecks or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. Set up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics to check whether it's actually following them.
# In your robots.txt ...
User-agent: Cloudflare Healthchecks # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/cloudflare-healthchecks
Disallow: /
⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Editing Is Not Scalable
New agents are created every day. We recommend setting up Dark Visitors Automatic Robots.txt if you want to block all agents of this type.