Case Study: Manta blocks 99.9% of web scrapers and eliminates brownouts with Imperva

Manta Stops Web Scrapers & Eliminates Brownouts

Manta, a popular online directory for U.S. small businesses that attracts about 30,000 new business owners monthly and serves millions of listings, faced persistent web scraping and availability problems during its move to the cloud. Their on-prem anti-scraping appliance caused timeouts and brownouts, left them responsible for hardware and maintenance, and other CDN vendors didn’t offer focused anti-scraping protection.

Manta deployed Imperva Bot Management’s Cloud CDN, which deployed quickly, preserved their SEO-friendly URLs, and accurately distinguished good bots from malicious scrapers. The solution blocked 99.9% of scraping bots with no impact on legitimate users, increased site speed and good-bot traffic, cut CDN and anti-scraping costs by over $60K annually, and reduced IT overhead while smoothing their cloud migration.

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Russell Garrison

DevOps Engineer