Case Study: Cairn.info achieves cleaner analytics and stronger data protection with DataDome

Cairn leverages its web traffic with DataDome

Cairn.info, a coalition of academic publishers offering full‑text humanities and social‑science publications, was losing reliable readership insights because anonymous and “clandestine” bots inflated traffic, strained infrastructure and even caused service slowdowns. To clean up analytics and strengthen GDPR‑era data protection, Cairn.info selected DataDome’s bot‑protection solution.

DataDome was deployed via a small code snippet and its real‑time dashboard; within three weeks Cairn.info had activated protection and begun whitelisting partner bots as needed. Using DataDome, Cairn.info achieved cleaner, more reliable analytics for better audience targeting, reduced infrastructure load and fewer denial‑of‑service impacts, and stronger data protection and compliance—while retaining the ability to quickly unblock legitimate institutional crawlers.

Cairn.info

Jean-Baptiste de Vathaire

Operations Director and Co-founder