Guides, Tutorials & Insights
Learn about residential proxies, web scraping, data collection strategies, and industry best practices from the Shifter team.
How to Estimate Your Monthly Residential Proxy Bandwidth Needs
On per-GB plans, bandwidth is what you buy. A simple formula, real per-page sizes, and worked examples to estimate your monthly residential proxy bandwidth.
Matt Brown · July 15, 2026 How to Test Residential Proxy Speed, Success Rate, and Location Accuracy
Speed alone is a bad benchmark. How to measure residential proxy success rate, latency percentiles, and geo accuracy properly, with copy-paste Python tests.
Chris Collins · July 14, 2026 How to Scrape Amazon Product Data (Prices, Reviews, Rankings) with Proxies
A practical guide to scraping Amazon product data, prices, reviews, and rankings, per marketplace, and why residential proxies are what make it work.
Chris Collins · July 13, 2026 Residential Proxies for News and Media Monitoring
News coverage is regional, geo-gated, and bot-defended, so you only see it as a real local reader. How residential proxies make media monitoring accurate.
James Meadow · July 12, 2026 How to Cut Proxy Bandwidth Costs When Scraping at Scale
Residential proxies bill by the gigabyte, and a naive scraper wastes most of its bytes. Nine practical ways to cut proxy bandwidth costs without losing data.
Matt Brown · July 11, 2026 Residential Proxies for Recruiting and Job Market Data
Job postings, salaries, and hiring trends are served by location and heavily defended. How residential proxies make recruiting and job market data accurate.
Chris Collins · July 10, 2026 Residential Proxies for Digital Shelf Analytics
Your digital shelf, rank, content, availability, reviews, is geo-personalized per retailer and market. How residential proxies measure it as a real shopper.
James Meadow · July 9, 2026 How to Scrape Local Business Data (Google Maps and Directories) with Proxies
Local listings, ratings, and rankings are served by location, so you only see them right from inside the city. How proxies fix local business data collection.
Matt Brown · July 8, 2026