Stop Bad Bots from Slowing Down Your Website

Bad bots can quietly eat up your server power, slow down your WordPress, and frustrate real visitors. CleanTalk offers two powerful tools: Anti-Crawler (Bot Protection) and Anti-Flood. Together they block fake traffic, keep your site light, and protect the experience for real people.

Why Worry About Bad Bots?

They might not look dangerous, but bad bots:

• send fake traffic that overloads your server
• waste your bandwidth and hosting resources
• make your site crawl, which frustrates users and costs you sales

Did you know? Up to 40% of all website traffic comes from bots. Most of them never buy anything — but they can make your server sweat.

CleanTalk Anti-Crawler (Bot Protection)

Anti-Crawler spots suspicious behavior, blocks aggressive crawlers, and keeps them away.

• Stops bots that try to scrape your site or overload it with requests
• Uses behavior analysis instead of just IP-blocking
• Automatically allows good bots like Googlebot and Bingbot

Pro tip: Not all bots are bad! CleanTalk blocks the noisy ones but always lets the useful ones in.

CleanTalk Anti-Flood

Anti-Flood sets limits on how many requests a visitor can make in a short time.

• Example: If one IP tries to load more than 10 pages per minute, it gets blocked temporarily
• Works silently: real visitors don’t even notice
• Bots hit the wall in seconds

You can enable it directly in your WordPress dashboard under CleanTalk → Settings → Advanced Settings.

Enable Anti-Flood & Anti-Crawler in one click — right in your WordPress settings.

What You’ll Gain

• Faster loading for real people — no lag from fake traffic
• Lower hosting bills — stop paying for bots that never convert
• Cleaner SEO crawl budget — Google focuses on your real pages, not on junk

More Than Just Anti-Spam

CleanTalk isn’t only about blocking spam in comments and forms. With Anti-Flood and Anti-Crawler you also:

• protect against scanners that look for vulnerabilities
• keep uptime stable during bot storms
• add another layer to Security Firewall and SSL & Security

Quick check: If traffic stats look “too good to be true” but your site feels slow, you’re probably seeing bot traffic, not real visitors.

How It Complements Other CleanTalk Plugins

CleanTalk uses the cloud to filter traffic before it reaches your site. Each plugin handles its own task, and together they give WordPress multi-layered protection:

• Anti-Spam — stops spam in forms, comments, and sign-ups
• Security Firewall — blocks known malicious IPs at the perimeter
• SpamFireWall — filters bad traffic in the cloud before it hits your server
• Anti-Flood & Anti-Crawler — limit requests and block aggressive bots to keep your site fast and stable.

Together these cloud plugins protect content, stop hacks, cut off bad traffic, and keep performance high.

Try It in a Few Clicks

1. Install the CleanTalk plugin from WordPress.org
2. Activate your license and go to Settings — Advanced Settings
3. Switch on Anti-Flood & Anti-Crawler — that’s it
4. View statistics in your CleanTalk Dashboard

Statistics of blocks for the options Anti-Flood и Anti-Crawler is available in the SpamFireWall Log: https://cleantalk.org/my/show_sfw

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