Case Study: Toppreise.ch achieves an end to web scraping and lowers infrastructure costs with DataDome

Toppreise Ends Web Scraping and Content Theft With DataDome

Toppreise.ch, Switzerland’s first and largest product price-comparison site, was beset by persistent scraper bots that stole content, overloaded servers and forced blunt countermeasures (IP and country blocks) that caused false positives and distracted the team. To solve this, Toppreise.ch evaluated vendors and selected DataDome’s bot protection solution—deploying its server-side module with a persistent connection (plus lightweight integrations) to detect and handle bot traffic before regular request processing.

DataDome’s module classifies requests in under 2 milliseconds and blocks abusive traffic while surfacing detailed bot analytics and easy-to-manage rules in its dashboard. After implementation, DataDome stopped content theft, revealed unknown scraper and injection activity, reduced overall traffic load and infrastructure needs, and cut the time Toppreise.ch spent fighting bots—improving site performance and lowering costs.

Toppreise.ch

Uwe Hörmann

Co-founder and Partner