911Proxy Web Proxy Review

911Proxy's free web proxy worked better than its branding suggests: every test page loaded, YouTube played both times, the JavaScript app worked and we counted no ads inside the session. It is slow, though, and it sits on a page titled after CroxyProxy while being run by 911Proxy, a residential proxy seller, which is worth knowing before you trust it with anything.

The short version

• 10 of 10 test loads succeeded, but at a median of 7,346 ms, among the slower proxies we measured.
• YouTube played on both loads and the React test app worked, one of the best compatibility results in our test.
• No ads and no ad-network requests inside proxied pages; the landing page promotes 911Proxy's paid plans instead.
• The free tool lives at 911proxy.com/croxyproxy/ under CroxyProxy's name. Our session exited in the United States.

At a glance

Facts checked on each site's own pages.

What we measured

Results from the scripted browsing session every proxy in this series goes through. Measured from a single connection in the EU, using test method wpb-1.1. Every proxy ran the same scripted session.

What 911Proxy's web proxy is

911Proxy sells residential proxies, and it hosts free web proxy pages on its own domain under other brands' names. The one we tested, 911proxy.com/croxyproxy/, is titled "CroxyProxy Free Web Proxy", explains "What Is a CroxyProxy?" and shows the 911Proxy and CroxyProxy logos side by side. It is run by 911Proxy; CroxyProxy is a separate service with its own site. A similar page exists at /proxysite/.

The tool itself is straightforward: a country menu set to the United States by default, an address box, a GO button and quick links to sites such as DuckDuckGo, Google, YouTube, Wikipedia and Reddit. Above it, a banner advertises 800,000+ new US residential IPs for $0.80 per GB, and the navigation leads to 911Proxy's pricing and sign-up. You do not need an account to use the free tool.

How it performed in our test

In our ten timed page loads, 911Proxy completed 10 of 10 attempts, which is as reliable as it gets, but slowly: a median of 7,346 ms, putting it among the slower proxies we measured. Its times were consistent, so expect a wait of several seconds on every page rather than the occasional stall.

Compatibility is its strongest point. The YouTube video played on both loads, a result we saw on just four proxies in the field. It also passed our JavaScript check, with the TodoMVC app listing the to-do we typed, and the GitHub login form appeared intact. We did not log in anywhere, so session persistence is unmeasured.

We counted no visible ads, pop-ups or interstitials on proxied pages, and no requests to ad networks while browsing. The landing page made a single request to an ad host but showed no ad slot. The selling happens on the landing page through 911Proxy's own banners rather than inside the sites you open.

We did not count the country list. The location dropdown could not be read without interacting with it, so we left it unscored rather than guess, and we only exercised the default. That session exited from a US IP on the network of Cloudie Limited. LumiProxy's free proxy exited through the same network in our test, so the two appear to share a backend. The exit IP's type was not formally classified, which is why the table marks it as not measured.

Is 911Proxy's web proxy safe?

The proxy runs over HTTPS on 911Proxy's own subdomain, and in our test it loaded no ad code inside proxied pages, which is a cleaner session than most free proxies give you.

Two things count against it. We found no statement on what the free web proxy records about the pages you visit, so its logging is not disclosed. And the page uses another company's brand, so visitors searching for CroxyProxy may not realize whose servers they are using. The page copy also says it supports adult entertainment websites. Treat it like any free proxy: public pages only, no passwords or payment details.

Who it suits

911Proxy's web proxy suits someone who wants a free proxy that plays YouTube and handles modern web apps without ads, and who can live with a few seconds per page. It is also a fair preview if you are already looking at 911Proxy's residential plans.

It suits you less if you want to know exactly whose tool you are using and what it logs, or need a residential exit in a country you choose. Shifter Web Proxy offers 54 countries of residential IPs under its own name with no ads, within a free allowance of 30 minutes and 100 MB a day and a reCAPTCHA before each session.

Pros and cons

Who 911Proxy Web Proxy is for

How we scored it

Measured from a single connection in the EU, using test method wpb-1.1. Every proxy ran the same scripted session. Countries are scored on a log scale, because a jump from 3 to 20 countries matters far more to a visitor than one from 100 to 200, and only countries with residential exits count: every exit we observed is classified by its network, consumer ISP or hosting provider. Ads are scored on three parts: ads on the landing page (25%), ad slots added to proxied pages, filled or empty (45%) and ad-network code loaded while you browse, seen or not (30%). Any ad-network request caps that part at 6 out of 10.

Every criterion is calculated from published facts or our own measurements and normalised across all the free web proxies we track, Shifter included. Nothing is scored by hand, so a proxy that beats ours on a criterion scores higher on it.

• Speed measured

  Weight 22% 1.4/10

  7346 ms median page load against 16 proxies we timed, multiplied by the 100% of test pages that loaded.

• Countries measured

  Weight 17% 0/10

  Every exit we observed was on a hosting or cloud provider's network, so none count as residential. Log scale against the widest residential choice in the field (54).

• Ads measured

  Weight 22% 10/10

  Landing page ads: no. Ad slots added to proxied pages, filled or empty: 0. Ad-network requests per proxied page: 0.

• Compatibility measured

  Weight 22% 10/10

  Passed 2 of 2 checks (YouTube playback, staying logged in, a JavaScript app).

• Privacy

  Weight 17% 5/10

  Operator named: yes. Logging: no policy published. HTTPS to the proxy: yes.