Title: Website performance
Last modified: June 24, 2021

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# Website performance

 *  Resolved [tiendabs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tiendabs/)
 * (@tiendabs)
 * [4 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-performance-5/)
 * Hello
    We have cloudfare as DNS, is it compatible or does it generate a problem?
   Is the performance of the website affected with the active plugin?
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fwebsite-performance-5%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Support [wfpeter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfpeter/)
 * (@wfpeter)
 * [4 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-performance-5/#post-14595079)
 * Hi [@tiendabs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tiendabs/), thanks for getting
   in touch!
 * We have many customers successfully using Wordfence with Cloudflare but there
   are some extra settings that need to be considered for both. I’ll provide them
   below for you.
    - Login to Cloudflare
    - Go to “Firewall”
    - Click the “Firewall Rules” tab
    - Click “Create a Firewall rule”
    - Name the rule under “Rule Name”
    - Set the “Field” under “When incoming requests match…” to “IP Address”
    - Enter your site’s IP address under “Value”
    - At the bottom, under “Then…Choose an action” change “Block” to “Allow”
    - Click “Deploy”
 * In the Cloudflare firewall as highlighted above, some customers have also had
   to allow our IPs under certain scenarios. Those can be found for your reference
   here.
 * Finally, in **Wordfence > Dashboard > Global Options > General Wordfence Options
   > How does Wordfence get IPs**, you will most likely need to select “**Use the
   Cloudflare “CF-Connecting-IP” HTTP header to get a visitor IP. Only use if you’re
   using Cloudflare.**”. That will be the setting you need to use going forward,
   so click the SAVE button once you’re done.
 * You can find your public facing IP address at: [https://www.whatsmyip.org/](https://www.whatsmyip.org/)
 * There’s some further information around this here: [https://www.wordfence.com/help/dashboard/options/#general-wordfence-options](https://www.wordfence.com/help/dashboard/options/#general-wordfence-options)
 * Let me know how that goes and I’m happy to look further into any issues you have
   if they crop up.
 * Thanks,
 * Peter.

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 * Last activity: [4 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-performance-5/#post-14595079)
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