Title: Firewall Rules – Timeframe Clarification
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Firewall Rules – Timeframe Clarification

 *  [electroset](https://wordpress.org/support/users/electroset/)
 * (@electroset)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/firewall-rules-timeframe-clarification/)
 * With the option; “If a human’s page views exceed”,
    If I set that to; “30 per
   minute (1 every 2 seconds)” Does it wait for them to click the 30th page and 
   throttle/block them if that happens in 59 seconds or less? Or, Does it throttle/
   block them ‘progressively’; eg. 3 clicks in 5 seconds? I am getting quite a few
   of these notifications, but surely I have visited a website, clicked a page link
   and missed, quickly click the page link I wanted, then seen another page link
   I really wanted. Those 3 clicks could happen in 5 seconds… Thanks for clarity.
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 *  [WFSupport](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfsupport/)
 * (@wfsupport)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/firewall-rules-timeframe-clarification/#post-5465384)
 * Hi
 * Great question. So, if you have the option set to throttle after 30 pages per
   minute, then from the first click it should track the clicks until the user hits
   30 in the first 60 seconds. After that, for the duration of the minute, the site
   returns that user a 503 – service temporarily unavailable. If someone is clicking
   30 pages in a minute they must read really fast. 🙂 I would take a sample ip 
   address or two that get blocked for that and check to see where it is located(
   whois) to see what you get back. I wonder if you are seeing a botnet. Are they
   hitting legit pages or ones that are 404’s?
 * tim

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