Verified Bots Directory

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Cloudflare Prefetch

Listed only

Cloudflare's prefetch bot, an Enterprise speed-optimization feature that pre-populates the CDN cache with content a visitor is likely to request next, using a site-owner-supplied manifest of URLs. Requests carry the CloudFlare-Prefetch user-agent.

Operated by Cloudflare · Official documentation

User agents

Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.

  • regexCloudFlare-Prefetch/[\d.]+
  • observedMozilla/5.0 (compatible; CloudFlare-Prefetch/0.1; +http://www.cloudflare.com/)

How to verify

No verification recipe published by the operator.

Good Bot Practices scorecard

  • Identifies honestly

    Stable UA token documented (1 pattern)

  • Verifiable

    Operator publishes no verification path

  • Respects robots.txt

    Service traffic you configured — robots.txt does not apply

  • Behaves

    Crawl-rate behavior is operator-declared; not machine-verifiable from this dataset

  • Reachable operator

    Operator and documentation published

Measured against the Good Bot Practices.