Proxies for international market research

Every market looks different from the inside. Catalogues, reviews and rankings shift with the visitor's country, and sites slow down anyone reading too many pages from one IP.

Which proxy is best for market research?

For market research, rotating residential proxies with country targeting fit best. They let your program read public reviews, listings and catalogues the way local visitors see them in each market, without any single IP being slowed down.

Visit each market as a local

Put the country in the username and the site serves its local edition: local sellers, local reviews, local prices.

Let volume choose the plan

Research means many small pages. Country targeting covers most of it, so the cheaper residential pool is usually right. For IPv6-ready sites, the IPv6 plans are cheaper still.

Go gently

Spread requests over time as well as over IPs. Stick to public pages and respect data protection law wherever you and the site are.

Recommended proxy types

Setting it up in four steps

Order the smallest Residential Lite plan (one gigabyte) as a trial. Pay with crypto and it is delivered automatically.
Take the host lite.proxies.boo, port 6969, and your username and password from the plan page.
Set the exit country with a code in the username, like USERNAME-country-us.
Point the job at your real target. Working? Top up the same plan. Blocked? Move to the next proxy type listed above.

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Market research: common questions

Which markets can I study?

Any country on the locations list. Swap its two-letter code into the username and the same plan reads the next market.

Do I need a full browser, or are simple requests enough?

Simple requests work when the content is in the page HTML, and they use much less traffic. Pages that build their content with JavaScript need a headless browser.