Security Scan: What Is Cloudflare and Why You Should Use It?

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This website contacted 22 IPs in 3 countries across 15 domains to perform 47 HTTP transactions. The main domain is westhost.com and was registered 28 years ago.

Submitted URL: https://www.westhost.com/blog/what-is-cloudflare-and-why-you-should-use-it/

AI Security Verdict

Safe Website

Confidence: 95%

Risk Score

Legitimate WestHost blog article explaining Cloudflare. Established 28-year-old own-brand domain, no credential or payment forms, and no threat-intel, YARA or IDS hits.

Safety Factors (5)

28-year-old well-established domain with matching own-brand

Business entity and registered office disclosed in footer (Westhost is a trading name of UK2 Group LLC)

Article/blog content reporting on Cloudflare rather than impersonating it

No credential or payment collection on the page

Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

What Is Cloudflare and Why You Should Use It? – WestHost Blog

Scan Type

public

Favicon Hash

MMH3: -1413074243

MD5: ffd0c3e423d4c3b2419ca9445696d4f8

Domain Name Analysis

Within the commercial generic top-level domain (.com), 'www.westhost.com' is registered; it also runs on subdomain 'www'. The second-level label 'westhost' is 8 characters long holding two vowels versus six consonants. Breaking it apart gives 2 words: west, host. Expect four characters per word on average. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

Screenshot

Page Load Overview

1.50s

Total Load Time

1.1 MB

Total Size

Language Analysis

Primary Language

🇺🇸English

Code: en

Confidence:80%

Script:Latin

Direction:ltr

Detection Details

HTML Lang Attribute:en-US

Text Length:5,977 chars

Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

technology software53% confidence

Type: dynamic

Method: ml+structural+ocr_tiebreaker

All Detected Categories

technology software

53%

documentation technical

36%

news/blog

35%

Detected Features

Articles

OG: article

Domain & IP Information

Requests	IP Address	Location	AS Autonomous System
5	172.67.157.18Cloudflare · WAF	United States	AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
2	104.26.6.231Cloudflare · WAF	United States	AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
2	104.16.79.73Cloudflare · WAF	United States	AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
2	142.251.20.97Google · CDN	United States	AS15169Google LLC
2	108.138.7.125Cloudfront · CDN	United States	AS16509Amazon.com, Inc.
2	172.66.168.139Cloudflare · WAF	United States	AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
2	157.240.0.6Facebook · CDN	Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany	AS32934Facebook, Inc.
2	150.171.28.10Azure · CLOUD	United States	AS8075Microsoft Corporation
2	142.251.152.119Google · CDN	United States	AS15169Google LLC
2	142.251.14.149Google · CDN	United States	AS15169Google LLC
47	22	-	-