Case Study: America’s Top Online Lighting Retailer eliminates price scraping with ShieldSquare

America’s Top Online Lighting Retailer Integrates ShieldSquare to Eliminate Competitive Price Scraping

America’s Top Online Lighting Retailer, a leading North American online lighting and home decor seller, faced a surge in unauthorized bot activity that was scraping prices and product listings. The resulting traffic spikes strained infrastructure, increased bandwidth costs, slowed the site for real shoppers, and threatened the retailer’s competitive position.

ShieldSquare provided a non-intrusive, API-based bot mitigation solution that monitored traffic, identified bot intent, and blocked competitive scraping without requiring a proxy or extensive engineering effort. After implementation, America’s Top Online Lighting Retailer stopped 100% of scraping activity, reduced bad bot traffic, achieved 22% infrastructure cost savings, and improved traffic quality, SEO, and conversion rates.