Case Study: Honolulu Board of REALTORS® achieves 35% reduction in bad-bot traffic and improved site performance with Distil Networks

Honolulu Board of Realtors - Customer Case Study

The Honolulu Board of REALTORS®, which operates HiCentral.com to publish MLS listings for more than 5,300 members on Oahu, suspected that much of its heavy web traffic was non‑human but lacked filtering tools to verify it. After a free trial with Distil Networks, the board confirmed extensive bot activity—attacks from over 100 companies using thousands of IPs and many single‑request IPs that rendered simple rate limits ineffective—raising concerns about server performance and data scraping.

Distil’s cloud‑based bot detection and mitigation platform blocked malicious bots, cutting bad‑bot traffic by about 35% in eight months, stopping attacks from 100+ countries, and preventing more than ten brown‑out days when bot requests had outpaced human traffic. The service improved site performance, protected listings and member content from scraping, and has since been adopted by many of the trade group’s member sites.

Honolulu Board of Realtors

Floyd Murashige

Director of Information Services