Troubleshooting1 min readUpdated

Visitors get 429, 444 or a 'Checking your browser' page

What the protection answers mean, how to tell a real customer from a bot, and how to let someone through.

What they seeMeaningWhat to do
429 Too Many RequestsThat address asked for too many pages per second, or the shop had too many filtered pages at once.Usually bots. For an office with many people on one address, raise Requests per second per address.
Connection closed / empty response (444)Refused: a blocked address, network, user agent or country, or an attack tool.Check the Blocked list on the Protection tab.
Checking your browser, one momentThe browser check: on for filtered pages, the whole site, a country, or automatically because the server was overloaded.Real browsers pass in a second. Ask the customer to allow cookies.
Please allow cookies for this siteThe browser refused the check cookie.Allow cookies for the site, or use another browser.
Timeout when connectingThe address was banned at the firewall by fail2ban.Security tab, Unban. See fail2ban.

Monitoring tools, uptime checkers and integrations that call the store often look like bots. Payment callbacks, APIs, feeds and sitemaps are never limited; for other tools tell us their addresses.

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