Title: Rate limiting alerts
Last modified: July 5, 2020

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# Rate limiting alerts

 *  Resolved [rifatspir](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rifatspir/)
 * (@rifatspir)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rate-limiting-alerts/)
 * I would like to try wordfence rate limiting, my question is does wordfence send
   alert when any bot or human get throttle by rate limiting?
 * if not, is there any way to enable it?

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 *  [WFSupport](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfsupport/)
 * (@wfsupport)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rate-limiting-alerts/#post-13079233)
 * We don’t send an alert for that specifically. The alerts we do send can be found
   on the Wordfence Dashboard > General Options section where it says “Email Alert
   Preferences”.
 * Just a FYI, throttling is generally a better option than blocking because any
   good search engine understands what happened if it is mistakenly blocked and 
   your site isn’t penalized because of it. Make sure and set your Rate Limiting
   Rules realistically and set the value for how long an IP is blocked to 30 minutes
   or so.
 * I generally set my Rate Limiting Rules to these values to start with:
    If anyone’s
   requests exceed 240 per minute If a crawler’s page views exceed 120 per minute
   If a crawler’s pages not found (404s) exceed 60 per minute If a human’s page 
   views exceed 120 per minute If a human’s pages not found (404s) exceed 60 per
   minute How long is an IP address blocked when it breaks a rule 30 minutes
 * Remember there is no hard and fast, one size fits all set of rules for every 
   site. These are just a good place to start. During an attack you may want to 
   make those rules stricter. If you see visitors, like search engine crawlers getting
   blocked too often, you might want to loosen them up a little.
 * I hope this helps.
 * Tim
 *  Thread Starter [rifatspir](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rifatspir/)
 * (@rifatspir)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rate-limiting-alerts/#post-13079996)
 * [@wfsupport](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfsupport/) These settings will
   be perfect for medium base WooCommerce store? Get daily 5k to 10k visits daily?
 * I am getting lots of hits by bots and human who’s continuously stealing my products
   details and images.
 *  [WFSupport](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfsupport/)
 * (@wfsupport)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rate-limiting-alerts/#post-13080109)
 * They should work fine. As I said, you might consider tightening them up a little
   if you see bots getting through, or blocking the IPs for longer periods of time.
   The trick is to start loose and tighten from there. You don’t want to block legitimate
   visitors to the site.
 * Tim

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