Http flood protection: accesses vs http requests on rate limiting

I would like to protect an application against HTTP Flood
I enabled Access Limiting under the Rate Limiting, and i did set

Duration 10
Access 1000
Action block
Block 30 min

Here is my question: does Safeline count 1000 http requests on my application, from the same IP within 10 seconds? Or does it count 1000 accesses?
An singe access to the application (in this case) is made by 80 to 100 requests, it is a wordpress website.
Can you please clarify my doubt?

It counts 1000 http requests from the same IP within 10 seconds.

You can use Exclude Content-Type to exclude certain requests that don’t need to be counted.

During the 10 seconds time window, every http request pass through, even if there are 10.000 requestes?