Ban rate
The proportion of requests that a destination blocks, challenges or serves a decoy page to, as distinct from requests that fail for network reasons.
Why it costs you money
A blocked request still moves bytes and still bills. At a thirty percent ban rate you pay for roughly three requests to get two, so your real cost per usable page is about half again your headline rate. It is also entirely target-specific, which is why no comparison table, including ours, can tell you what yours will be.
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Related terms
- Success rateThe share of requests that get through. The number that decides everything, and the one no comparison table can give you.
- IP reputationHow a target site scores an address before serving it, based on what that address has done elsewhere.
- CAPTCHA rateHow often a target serves a challenge instead of the page. A softer signal than a ban and it costs the same bytes.
- Residential proxyAn IP address belonging to a real home internet connection, rented by the gigabyte. The hardest type to block and the most expensive.
- Every term we define