Speculation error ? How can I fix it?

What is the name of the domain?

What is the error number?

speculation error

What is the error message?

speculation

What is the issue you’re encountering

speculation

What steps have you taken to resolve the issue?

Why is /cdn-cgi/speculation being called automatically?

How can I completely disable it?

Does it impact SEO or performance if left enabled?

Any help or clarification would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

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:authority:

:method:
GET
:path:
/cdn-cgi/speculation
:scheme:
https
accept:
/

Screenshot of the error

This has to do with Speed Brain, which is enabled by default and can be disabled: Speed Brain · Cloudflare Speed docs

I’m no SEO guru, but I’m curious: what’s your real concern here? The speculation technology itself? Or the mere presence of the /cdn-cgi/speculation URL (and it’s potential impact)?

If it’s the latter, then note that Cloudflare uses the /cdn-cgi/ endpoint to serve the scripts for a couple of other things: /cdn-cgi/ endpoint · Cloudflare Fundamentals docs

So if you’re concerned about these URLs getting crawled and/or indexed by search engines, then the simple solution is to add Disallow: /cdn-cgi/ to your robots.txt file to exclude this path.

It will most likely improve your SEO, since speculation will tell the user’s browser which files and pages to load next, resulting in a faster browsing experience, which is part of Core Web Vitals.

Beware that even Wordpress is implementing this in its newer version, so, even if you disable it at Cloudflare’s side, it could still trigger at your Wordpress’ side. But for real, except if this is causing an issue, don’t deactivate it in either side. You’ll lose more than you’ll gain.

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