HTTP 429: 429 Too Many Requests (Rate Limited)

What Does HTTP 429 Mean?

HTTP 429 Too Many Requests indicates the user has sent too many requests in a given amount of time.

Causes and How to Fix HTTP 429

Exceeding API rate limits, rapid crawling, or DDoS mitigation rules. Accompanied by Retry-After header.

SEO & Search Engine Impact

Causes Googlebot to throttle crawling. Whitelist verified search engine crawlers from rate limiters.

Web Server Configuration (Nginx & Apache)

Configure custom error handling in your web server:

# Nginx Custom Error Handler
error_page 429 /429.html;
location = /429.html {
    root /var/www/html;
    internal;
}