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ssltest
GoodBotVerifiedBOTEach check reads the TLS certificate and settings of one host, along with its robots.txt and the HTTP headers.
Identification
Bot name
ssltest
Category
Security
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
ssltest
User-agent patterns
ssltestUser-agent string
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ssltest/1.0; +https://ssltest.com/bot)
Rated Oct 9, 2026 from public evidence
How we rated this bot
Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.
Names itself honestly
Yes
Verified by Cloudflare
Yes
Says it follows robots.txt and opt-outs
Not stated
Ignores site rules
None found
Disguises itself or evades blocks
None found
Overloads sites
None found
How widely people complain
No complaint about this bot in the evidence
Reddit discussion
There is no Reddit discussion of this bot in the evidence
What we read
- Crawler without limits: Perplexity ignores robots.txt | heise online
- Googlebot ignores robots.txt - Google Search Central Community
- Meta Has New Web-Crawling Bots That Sneakily Get Around Robots.txt - Business Insider
- 9 Robots.txt Rules Googlebot Ignores Even If You Add Them to Your File
- Does llms.txt Help SEO? Google Says It Ignores the File
Block or allow ssltest
Block it
Add a Disallow rule for ssltest 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 ssltest from crawling your entire site User-agent: ssltest Disallow: / # Allow ssltest full access User-agent: ssltest Allow: /
Allow & verify
Ensure your robots.txt allows ssltest. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.
Traffic & trends
Cloudflare Radar traffic
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Links & references
Data sources
This profile is compiled from the following sources.
CloudflareRadar
Last updated October 9, 2026
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