Title: Prevent loopback tests
Last modified: September 10, 2020

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# Prevent loopback tests

 *  [digitalsmithy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/digitalsmithy/)
 * (@digitalsmithy)
 * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/prevent-loopback-tests/)
 * Every visit to the WP admin area fires a loopback test – especially visiting 
   the ‘health check’ page. I know this is needed for the health check – but because
   it fires so often, it’s triggering rate limiting for many hosts.
    Once the rate
   limit is triggered – health check reports REST API errors, and updates/validations
   trigger CURL errors – when the error was caused by the error check itself! Is
   there any way to prevent the ‘test loopbacks’… I know the site is fine – but 
   with the latest WP versions suddenly I’m getting loads of issues, because if 
   I work on the site, it uses my ‘loopback limit’ – and then I get curl/rest errors.
   Thanks

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 *  [Joy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joyously/)
 * (@joyously)
 * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/prevent-loopback-tests/#post-13388597)
 * I asked the developer of the Site Health code. Here’s his reply.
 * Marius Jensen said:
 * > Visiting the health check page will fire a loopback test, yes
   >  It should only
   > be firing on the health check page though, unless the user is on an old version
   > because I know there was a bug in 5.2-beta2 where it would fire off the test
   > as well on the dashboard
 *  Thread Starter [digitalsmithy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/digitalsmithy/)
 * (@digitalsmithy)
 * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/prevent-loopback-tests/#post-13388675)
 * Thanks [@joyously](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joyously/)
    I’ve fed that
   back to my hosts. Now just to sit in the middle while each blames the other and
   hope something get fixed eventually!! It’s just like politics 😀

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 * Last reply from: [digitalsmithy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/digitalsmithy/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/prevent-loopback-tests/#post-13388675)
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