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ALT Smartpath saved over 40% of residential data consumption on average in a Byteful test across 10,000 pages in July 2025.
ALT The test covered 10,000 real pages across Amazon, Reddit, Footlocker, ASOS, Target, Redfin, Trustpilot and Bloomberg.
ALT Smartpath assesses each request in under 10ms. Requests needing residential stay on residential; the rest route through datacenter without consuming residential data.
ALT A page loads more than its main HTML request, the routing decision happens per request in under 10ms, and savings depend on what each page actually needs.
ALT OS Targeting in beta. Append an os parameter to your proxy username to route through a Windows, Linux or Android device, on residential and mobile proxies.
ALT Cover slide for Proxy 101 episode six, on what happens when a proxy request fails and the debugging trail it leaves behind.
ALT Every Byteful response carries two debugging headers: x-byteful-status-code for what happened, and x-byteful-request-id to find the request in Live Activity.
ALT Six failure buckets on a request path. Five point to a specific cause, from credentials through to the target refusing. The sixth is a broader server or network error.
ALT TLS keeps an HTTPS target's response encrypted, so Byteful reports the failure it observed while connecting or transmitting rather than the target's own HTTP status code.
ALT Cover slide arguing that more precise proxy targeting is not always better, since every filter narrows the pool you draw from.
ALT Start at country level for the widest pool and fewest surprises. Add a narrower filter only when something actually needs it.
ALT Country level suits almost everything. City, ZIP or ASN is worth adding when content differs by location or you need a particular network or carrier.
ALT Cover slide comparing HTTP and SOCKS5 proxy protocols, framed as two protocols built for different jobs.
ALT HTTP proxies read plain HTTP requests and headers but tunnel HTTPS unread. Best for standard scraping, unsuitable for DNS, streaming or real-time protocols.
ALT SOCKS5 relays TCP connections and, where supported, UDP datagrams, without interpreting HTTP. Suits DNS, RTSP-based streaming, gaming and real-time traffic.
ALT HTTP for standard web scraping, SOCKS5 for DNS, streaming or real-time, and both supported natively when a pipeline needs each.
ALT The EWDCI Certified trust seal, a blue circular badge, on a light grey background with faint orbital rings and pixel-square texture.
ALT Byteful Quick Tip: your timeout is set off the wrong number. A 410ms timeout, the global average, is struck through. 2000ms is marked correct, since 95% of responses finish by 810ms.
ALT New from Byteful: Multi-Region Checkout. Every location in one order, on ISP and datacenter proxies.
ALT A single cart holding United States, Germany and Netherlands together, totalling seventy proxies on one subscription.
ALT Two benefits: buy every region in one cart with bundle discounts, and reconfigure every region in one operation.
ALT Multi-region checkout is available now on ISP and datacenter proxies at dashboard.byteful.com.
ALT Orchid gradient cover tagged "Benchmark, P95 latency" with the Byteful logo. A large figure reads "under 1s," above the title "Our Slowest 5% of Residential Requests, Measured."
ALT Orchid slide tagged "What P95 is," titled "The Slow 5%." Text explains that the average was 0.41 seconds and the median across 13 providers was 0.93 seconds, that P95 means 95 of every 100 requests came back faster than one second, and that it measures the worst end of the range rather than the comfortable middle.
ALT Orchid slide tagged "Why this matters," titled "Speed Is Consistency." Text explains that most speed claims quote an average, that the number deciding whether a job finishes is the slow end of the range, that a fast average with a slow tail behaves nothing like one that holds steady, and that consistency matters more than a headline average.
ALT Orchid closing slide tagged "Benchmark," titled "Test It On Your Own Traffic," with the lines "1GB residential free after KYC. Watch the tail, not just the average," a dashboard.byteful.com button, and a source note reading "Proxyway 2026 Proxy Market Research. 13 providers tested."
ALT Blue cover for Proxy 101 episode 5, titled "Geo-Targeting Is More Than Picking a Country," with the lines "Five filters. One request. Every layer narrows the pool." Three icons sit below: a location pin, a signal tower, and a globe.
ALT White slide tagged "How it narrows," titled "The Five Layers of Geo-Targeting," with a numbered list: 1, country, the broadest filter you can set; 2, state or region, where pricing varies inside a market; 3, city, when you need to look local, not national; 4, ZIP or postcode, the tightest geographic level; 5, carrier or ASN, across 10,000+ networks. A blue bar at the bottom reads "Combine them however the job needs."
ALT White slide tagged "Often skipped," titled "Carrier and ASN." Three labelled sections: What it is, the network an IP actually sits on, covering more than 10,000 across the residential pool. Why it matters, two IPs in the same city can sit on different carriers, and some sites treat those requests differently. Best for, local pricing checks, regional ad verification, and carrier-sensitive targets.
ALT White slide tagged "The trade-off," titled "Every Filter Shrinks the Pool." Three rows pair a filter combination with its result: country only, the widest match, gives the largest pool; country and city, narrower, gives a smaller pool; country, city and ASN, tightest, gives the smallest pool. A blue bar at the bottom reads "Live count. The dashboard updates as you add filters."
ALT Purple graphic tagged "Proxyway 2026 benchmark" with the Byteful logo. A large figure reads 81.23%, described as "Success rate against popular targets. First of 13 providers tested." A note below reads "Median across 13 providers tested: 74.43%."
ALT Light grey graphic with a large 99.69% in a white card, described as "Infrastructure success rate. Proxyway 2026." A note below reads "Median across 13 providers tested: 99.28%." A purple button reads dashboard.byteful.com.
ALT Announcement graphic: SOCKS5 UDP support now live on Byteful datacenter and ISP proxies, free with every IP. Tiles show what it unlocks: new protocols including DNS and QUIC, RTSP streaming, and real-time traffic.
ALT Purple cover for Proxy 101 episode 4, titled "How ISP proxies work," with the subhead "Datacenter speed, residential trust. Here's the trick." A faint abstract node-flow diagram sits below.
ALT Purple diagram slide titled "Datacenter hosted, residential IP," subtitled "Why the ASN check lets it through." A left-to-right flow of four nodes: Datacenter hosted (fast, stable), Residential IP (ISP-assigned, highlighted in navy as the key step), ASN check (reads consumer), and Allowed through (to the site). Body text explains the IP is hosted in a datacenter but its address is assigned by a real residential ISP, so the site's ASN check reads a consumer provider and allows it. A callout reads "And it can't be ASN-banned. That would block real customers too."
ALT Purple slide titled "Speed meets trust" with three points: datacenter speed (fast and stable, 99.9% uptime), residential-grade trust (a real ISP's ASN, reads as a home), and a static IP that stays put (same address, session after session). A line notes Proxyway 2026 found around 99.8% success and roughly 35% faster than residential, best for account management, long sessions, and retail monitoring.
ALT Purple closing slide titled "See where ISP proxies fit," with the line "See where static ISP proxies fit in your stack, and try them," and a dashboard.byteful.com button.
ALT Purple gradient cover tagged "Network data, Proxyway 2026" with a large 0.41s. Text reads "Fastest residential response time, Proxyway 2026," with a caption "And that's not even the story."
ALT Purple slide titled "In every region" with a white comparison card: Byteful's global pool at 0.41 seconds shown as a short gradient bar against the 0.93 second median of 13 providers tested shown as a longer grey bar. Text below reads "Fast in one region is easy. Fast in every region is infrastructure. The fastest response time tested. The 13-provider median: 0.93s."
ALT White chart slide titled "Response times by region" listing Byteful residential response times fastest first: EU 0.34s, UK 0.35s, global pool 0.41s highlighted in gradient, Australia 0.47s, India 0.51s, US 0.53s, Brazil 0.64s. A dashed line marks the 0.93s median of 13 providers, which every bar sits well under. Footer credits Proxyway Proxy Market Research 2026.
ALT Purple closing slide titled "Experience it yourself." Text reads "1GB residential trial, no card needed. Measure the response times yourself," above a dashboard.byteful.com button and a "Link in the first comment" tag.
ALT Purple gradient cover with a large "TOP 5" in a white box. Headline reads "Mistakes that get scrapers banned," with a subhead "Ranked by how often we see them."
ALT Purple slide numbered 01, titled "Mixing residential IPs with datacenter fingerprints." Body reads "A UK residential IP making requests with curl and no headers. The IP is fine. Everything else gives you away."
ALT Purple closing slide titled "Which one is biting you?" with a line reading "We've helped customers diagnose all five" and a prompt to "Tell us yours in the comments." The Byteful logo sits at the bottom.