55 Distil Networks Testimonials

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

"Data is the lifeblood of our business. Using Distil, we're able to block bots on a per request basis, rather than just blocking whole IPs. This allows us to protect our data and preserve a good user experience. With Distil, we've essentially outsourced our bot problem."

“One scraper had built their entire business around scraping one of our airline customers. In an attempt to evade detection, they’d change cloud providers and cycle through hundreds of IP addresses. Distil was still able to block them outright, because Distil isn’t based on blocking IP addresses, but rather on machine learning algorithms and device fingerprinting. With Distil, it’s like having an expert data science team on hand for frontline support. These guys live and breathe bots every day, so they’re really good at solving the issues impacting our airline customers.”

"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."

"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."

"This project has been a great success for us. It provides us with a highly effective, speedy, 24 hour automated system for detecting and giving us the information needed to act upon or even block scraping activity if we wish to."

"We’re confident Distil is blocking bots—not genuine customers. And with price sensitivity being key, we’re assured that automated extraction agents are stopped cold."

"GuideStar is the world’s largest source of information of nonprofit organizations. We have collected and curated billions of data points on nonprofit organizations and we needed a way to ensure our data was being used in a way that is consistent with our vision of driving social innovation and change. Distil has the ability to fingerprint bots, which gives us the ability to block by signature, not just by IP address."

"Before Distil we’d look at logs, try to find patterns, and block IP addresses, but it was an impossible task because the bot operators kept changing and masking IPs. We were spending over 20 hours a month trying to manually fix the problem. Distil gave me peace of mind. I know that I don't have to worry about bad bots and their impact on our business. I'm able to sleep at night. That's the biggest benefit of all."

"Left unchecked, large digital publishers typically see 20% of the traffic hitting their sites from bad bots. With our previous toolset we were at about 7% bad bot traffic, and after deploying Distil, we’re confident that we’re at less than 1% of bad bot traffic.”

“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."

"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."

"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."

"We compared different anti-bot solutions on separate websites. Distil blocked a far greater percentage of bad bots—more than 30%—than the other solutions we tried. Their machine learning capabilities fight the bots in a way that manual blocking could never keep up with."