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Cloudflare Healthchecks

Name: Cloudflare Healthchecks
Author: Cloudflare

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Cloudflare Healthchecks service Operated by Cloudflare.

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Assessment

SEO

What is Cloudflare Healthchecks?

Cloudflare Healthchecks is a web crawler operated by Cloudflare. Cloudflare Healthchecks service

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name

Cloudflare Healthchecks

Operator

Cloudflare

Why it crawls your site

Cloudflare Healthchecks crawls websites to analyze search engine optimization factors and backlinks. It is operated by Cloudflare as part of their SEO analysis infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow Cloudflare Healthchecks

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for Cloudflare-Healthchecks in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.

# Block Cloudflare Healthchecks from crawling your entire site
User-agent: Cloudflare-Healthchecks
Disallow: /

# Allow Cloudflare Healthchecks full access
User-agent: Cloudflare-Healthchecks
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows Cloudflare-Healthchecks. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Cloudflare's documentation.