CloudFlare Always Online
CloudFlare Always Online is a site monitor run by CloudFlare.
- Operator
- CloudFlare
- Type
- Site Monitor
- Official page
- cloudflare.com
- In Vireo
- Excluded, reported under Uptime monitors
User agent
Requests from CloudFlare Always Online carry a user agent like this:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; CloudFlare-AlwaysOnline/1.0; +http://www.cloudflare.com/always-online) AppleWebKit/534.34Device Detector identifies it with this pattern (a case-insensitive regular expression):
CloudFlare-AlwaysOnlineAnyone can put any name in a user agent. Where the operator publishes IP ranges, checking the request's address against them is the way to confirm a visit is genuine.
How Vireo counts CloudFlare Always Online
Vireo keeps requests from CloudFlare Always Online out of your pageviews and visitors and counts them on its bot report under Uptime monitors, so you can see how much it left out rather than wonder why your server logs show more traffic.
Checked by running Vireo Analytics' own bot filter over CloudFlare Always Online's user agents.
Sources
- CloudFlare Always Online information page (cloudflare.com)
- Matomo Device Detector, bots.yml (LGPL-3.0)
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