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Cloudflare-Healthchecks

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seo crawler

Cloudflare-Healthchecks is an SEO crawler.

What it does

Cloudflare-Healthchecks usually performs comprehensive, link-following crawls rather than spot checks. Visit frequency may rise while a customer actively monitors your site or a related market.

How to identify it

User-agent contains any of:

  • Cloudflare-Healthchecks

Example user-agent string:

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Cloudflare-Healthchecks/1.0; +https://www.cloudflare.com/; healthcheck-id: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA)

robots.txt

Well-behaved crawlers honor robots.txt. To control Cloudflare-Healthchecks:

Allow full access

User-agent: Cloudflare-Healthchecks
Allow: /

Block entirely

User-agent: Cloudflare-Healthchecks
Disallow: /

Grey-area scrapers ignore robots.txt. Botscope enforces your policy at the edge or origin regardless — see how →

See Cloudflare-Healthchecks on your own site

Botscope shows every bot and AI agent hitting your site — and lets you allow, challenge, or block each one. Observe first, enforce when you're ready.

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