Cloudflare Smart Transit
Cloudflare Smart Transit is a site monitor run by CloudFlare.
- Operator
- CloudFlare
- Type
- Site Monitor
- Official page
- developers.cloudflare.com
- In Vireo
- Excluded, reported under Uptime monitors
User agent
Requests from Cloudflare Smart Transit carry a user agent like this:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Cloudflare-Smart-Transit/1.0; +https://www.cloudflare.com/Device Detector identifies it with this pattern (a case-insensitive regular expression):
Cloudflare-Smart-TransitAnyone 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 Smart Transit
Vireo keeps requests from Cloudflare Smart Transit 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 Smart Transit's user agents.
Sources
- Cloudflare Smart Transit information page (developers.cloudflare.com)
- Matomo Device Detector, bots.yml (LGPL-3.0)
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- Cloudflare SSL Detector
- Cloudflare Traffic Manager
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