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Bar chart on a purple background: block domains in Playwright to cut proxy traffic from 9.27 MB to 2.15 MB per page load
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Block Domains in Playwright & Selenium: Cut Proxy Bandwidth by Up to 81%

We loaded three real news pages through a residential proxy with Playwright and measured every byte. Blocking ad and tracking domains cut traffic by 17–29%; adding images, video and fonts cut it by 58–81%. Here is the code for Playwright, Selenium and Puppeteer, how to block at the proxy itself, and what each use case should never block.

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Illustrative cost comparison of billed traffic value versus actual prepaid plan spending for nine thousand valid scraped records
Guides12 min read

Proxy Bandwidth Cost per Scraped Record: Calculate What Each Usable Result Costs

Learn the real cost per valid scraped record. Compare prepaid cash spend with metered bandwidth, benchmark your workflow, and calculate costs in Python.

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