Title: Checking your browser&#8230;
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Checking your browser…

 *  Resolved [joelo13p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joelo13p/)
 * (@joelo13p)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/checking-your-browser/)
 * Hi everyone,
 * I found out that when someone visits my site for the first time, a message saying
   Checking your browser.. appears and then the page redirects to the original url
   added ?ckattemp=1 at the end.
 * I don’t know why it appears or of it is a plugin.
 * The page saying Checking you browser seems to be using a script called aes.js
   and using cookies.
 * This is giving me problems with google indexing my site pages. It happens with
   every single page in my site (even the sitemaps).
 * Please help me out with this.

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 *  Thread Starter [joelo13p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joelo13p/)
 * (@joelo13p)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/checking-your-browser/#post-6421094)
 * I received a message from my hosting service saying that it’s a mandatory anti-
   bot security measure (as I have a free hosting plan).
 * It’s not a WordPress thing.
 *  [Layllah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/layllah/)
 * (@layllah)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/checking-your-browser/#post-6421274)
 * I too and have an aes.js issue. In the last 24 hours I have learned that aes.
   js is a Google Crypto JavaScript that enables safe running of the aforementioned.
   The problem isn’t the script it’s that way the script is being called. The html
   syntax is wrong. The opening <body> tag is where the call is unfortunately I 
   can’t locate it. It’s not in the “header.php” and I’m not sure where to look.
   This is the problem “Error Line 1, Column 1: no document type declaration; implying“
   <!DOCTYPE HTML SYSTEM>” <html><body><h2>Checking your browser..<h2><script type
   =”text/javascript” src=”aes.js”/>” This script overides the “!doctype” declaration
   and the “UTF-8” encoding info so the browser and bots are not sure what to do
   with the site. Hope this helps a little I’ll let you know when I figure out how
   to repair it.
 *  [ketan07](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ketan07/)
 * (@ketan07)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/checking-your-browser/#post-6421412)
 * how is this resolved? i am having the same problem! this started two weeks back
   and delays the home page. does anyone have a workaround for this?
 *  [ketan07](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ketan07/)
 * (@ketan07)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/checking-your-browser/#post-6421419)
 * So this is the official announcement by bytehost 🙁
 * Hi All,
 * Due to massive amounts of auto / bot /spam / application serving specific traffic
   causing performance degradation issues on free hosting services we have added
   new measures to reduce this.
 * You may have seen the new ‘Checking browser’ page, if so you would have also 
   seen your page load faster than before after running this check.
 * The check is mandatory on free hosting, and may change over time, if you are 
   using your free website for hosting a webpage, and this is causing issues contact
   us using the support channels in your vPanel.
 * If you are using your free hosting service for application hosting then we would
   recommend upgrading to premium hosting.
 * As always we are striving to offer the best ‘free web hosting’ experience, while
   dealing with the one in 100 that causes the problems for the majority.
 * Admin
 *  [jaronloch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaronloch/)
 * (@jaronloch)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/checking-your-browser/#post-6421425)
 * This prevents google webmasters tool to work on my website. Google can’t crawl
   any of my articles. This sucks.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 5 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [jaronloch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaronloch/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/checking-your-browser/#post-6421425)
 * Status: resolved

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