Case Study: Leading Online Beauty Retailer stops competitor web scraping and reduces bandwidth needs by 22% with Distil Networks

One of Europe’s Largest Online Beauty Retailers Puts an End to Web Scraping and Reduces Bandwidth Needs by 22% with Distil Networks

One of Europe’s largest independent online beauty retailers was being undermined by advanced web scraping: competitors and malicious bots were harvesting product, pricing and inventory data in real time, consuming server resources, slowing the site and forcing the internal team into a tedious, manual “whack-a-mole” IP‑blocking process that cost about a day and a half of work each week.

The retailer deployed Distil Networks’ cloud SaaS (CNAME/DNS) bot‑mitigation solution in an afternoon, blocking malicious bots while allowing legitimate crawlers. The result: scraping stopped, server and bandwidth needs dropped by 22%, site errors and latency fell (reducing bounce rates), IT regained time for core work, and the company preserved its competitive pricing advantage.