55 Distil Networks Testimonials

"Across all of our 20+ newspaper sites, Distil Networks keeps our content and data safe and improves our content delivery."

"Hosting cost savings has virtually covered the additional expense for Distil. It pays for itself!"

"We have steadily been blocking more bad actors and the spam they post. This is exactly what we were hoping we were going to get out of implementing Distil Networks' filtering solution."

"Some bot operators interject scripts into their code to mimic human behavior. Others will circumvent the web product page and go directly to the API behind it. Before Distil, bot blocking was eating up 20% of team resources, only 30% effective, and impacting the team’s quality of life. Distil lets us granularly control questionable traffic or simply block it all."

"The volunteers don't pull any punches when they are dissatisfied with the kind of spam they have to deal with. They want to spend their time helping people with Drupal technical questions, and instead they're deleting spam. Then they tell us we're doing a bad job in dealing with spam and we need to fix the problem. We really don’t want them wasting their time managing spam. We want them adding value to the project instead of helping clean up somebody else's mess."

“Fighting scrapers and hackers is a cold war so we need to be able to leverage accurate, real-time threat intelligence. The alliance of Distil-protected sites constitutes a highly effective nexus of knowledge and power to defeat our shared enemy--malicious bots.”

"We were getting load spikes from bad traffic, and when we switched to Distil, the result was very immediate. It did have a positive effect on page load times. We saw an improvement in site performance as our server load went down."

"Competitors use bots to perform an ‘Add To Cart’ action, then scrape for price. If we drop our price to $1.99, an hour later it could be $1.98 at another site. Then the competitor’s product appears higher in search engine price sorts. Boom—we just lost a sale. Also, those types of queries represent a high computational hit, taxing our backend servers and impacting site performance. Distil has made our lives so much easier."

"With Distil, we increased our uptime from 99.6 to 99.9%, reduced infrastructure costs and eliminated costly bot-driven API calls. Bots be gone!"

"None of the other solutions was able to block bots as well as Distil does. Distil leverages a strong network effect, which is really powerful."

"If someone comes in and steals our data through scraping, we don’t know exactly what they do with the data. They would probably resell it to their own customers, so they would make a profit on our data—and they don’t pay a cent to us to do that. Of course, that’s totally illegal. The big value of the Distil software is that it allows us to block these people, so we don’t lose our data or the revenue from selling it."

"We wanted something that would run unattended and automatically stop the bots. We were astounded by the amount bad bots that are available o the Internet and try to access our datas. Distil just works."

"Distil filters through all of our web traffic, ‘distils’ it, cleanses it and makes sure that we don't have to deal with any of the bad bots that try to scrape our sites. It eliminates all the management tasks for us and makes protecting our sites simple."

"Distil revealed that roughly 30% of our traffic was comprised of bad bots. We’re now blocking over 80% of that, and may decide to get more aggressive with our settings. Distil’s hands-off, proactive approach saves our company two to three man-days per month and is much more effective than the ‘whack-a-mole’ we were playing writing F5 iRules. We’ve also prevented at least three outages, and freed up 25% of our F5 LTM capacity."

"We chose to partner and integrate Distil's anti-fraud technology into our content advertising platform, which has been used across hundreds of millions of impressions."