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Rate limiting is a roadblock, not a speed limit (opens on the source site)
Rate limiting sounds like a speed limit, but 93.7% of rate-limited sites block on the very first request. It is an identity check, not a throttle.
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CAPTCHA is more than just a puzzle piece (opens on the source site)
The famously awkward security mechanism has quietly become an invisible behavioral scoring system. Two vendors enable 89% of CAPTCHAs, and the smallest sites use it most.
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Inside antibot, the arms race you can't see (opens on the source site)
Only 18.5% of top sites run dedicated antibot, but every one of them chose to. Why it's the most intentional barrier in the stack, and the strongest signal of a hardened site.
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Firewalls run the web, just not on purpose (opens on the source site)
Web Application Firewalls run on 92.4% of the top websites, but most arrived bundled with a CDN and were never tuned to resist automated access.
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Spider monitoring made easy (opens on the source site)
How do you know you're collecting all the data you need? And how can you be sure it's actually what you were expecting? Use Spidermon.
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