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Cloudflare SSLDetector

Name: Cloudflare SSLDetector
Author: Cloudflare

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Cloudflare SSLDetector service. Operated by Cloudflare.

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Assessment

SEO

What is Cloudflare SSLDetector?

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

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

Identification

Bot name

Cloudflare SSLDetector

Operator

Cloudflare

Why it crawls your site

Cloudflare SSLDetector 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 SSLDetector

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for Cloudflare-SSLDetector 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 SSLDetector from crawling your entire site
User-agent: Cloudflare-SSLDetector
Disallow: /

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

Allow & verify

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