What is a “request” in the context of “If anyone’s requests exceed…”

  • I did some searching on both WordFence’s documentation and the WordFence forums, but I couldn’t find a clear answer to this seemingly basic question.

    In the “Rate Limiting” options, what is the definition of a “request”? For example, does it mean that a bot requested a page/post? Or is it more like when a human loads a page and generates a lot of requests per page (e.g. stylesheets, scripts, etc.)?

    Thanks!
    -Toby

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  • Plugin Support wfphil

    (@wfphil)

    Hi @themightymo

    The Rate Limiting rules count mostly normal page loads, but not static assets, and not requests to admin-ajax.php.

    It can count 404 Not Found responses on missing static assets though. For example if the theme or a plugin tries to load a missing image then WordPress will try to serve it and will be registered as a 404, and that will be counted.

    Thread Starter Toby Cryns (@themightymo)

    (@themightymo)

    That’s very helpful. Thanks @wfphil.

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