In the rapidly evolving world of proxy services, Webshare, though a relatively young company, has already made significant strides. Not limiting themselves to datacenter proxies, they've broadened their horizon to include both residential and ISP proxies in their offerings, showcasing their ambition and adaptability in the market.

Founded in 2018, Webshare already provides over 30,000 customers with datacenter, residential, and ISP proxies. Their global datacenter network includes over 40 locations with shared, dedicated, and rotating IPs available.

Overview of Webshare's Proxy Offerings

While still a young company, Webshare has expanded beyond just datacenter proxies to offer residential and ISP proxies as well.

Datacenter Proxies

Webshare's core offering is datacenter proxies, which account for most of its revenue. There are several options:

• Shared: Affordable proxies starting at $2.99/month for 100 IPs
• Semi-Dedicated: More private IPs from $18.52/month
• Dedicated: Private proxies from $26.60/month
• Rotating: Large proxy pools that automatically rotate

You can choose IPs from 40+ locations globally. Webshare offers a lot of flexibility to customize plans based on number of IPs, bandwidth usage, refresh rates, and more.

Residential Proxies

This newer service gives access to a pool of 30 million residential IPs across 195+ countries. Pricing is very affordable at just $7 per GB of traffic used.

ISP Proxies

ISP proxies are available as shared, semi-dedicated, and dedicated plans. The network is smaller with IPs only in the US and Italy currently.

Blazing Fast Speeds, High Success Rates

Across several performance benchmarks, Webshare's proxies delivered consistently fast speeds and reliability:

• Datacenter download speeds: 15-21 Mbps, matching or beating our baseline speed
• Success rates: Up to 99% for datacenter IPs across locations
• Residential proxy pool: 30 million+ tested globally with 99%+ success
• Residential composition: 97-98% residential IPs, much higher than many competitors

Their network handles most sites very well. We saw high success accessing retail sites, social media, travel sites and more. Some occasional struggles with heavily protected sites like Google and Amazon, especially for shared datacenter IPs.

But overall, the performance is extremely impressive relative to the affordable pricing. Webshare is very competitively priced versus providers like Luminati and Oxylabs, while offering much better performance than other low-cost proxies.

Customizing Your Ideal Proxy Plan

One of Webshare's biggest strengths is their flexible pricing model that allows you to build a customized plan.

For datacenter proxies, choose locations around the world, pick shared, dedicated, or rotating IPs, set bandwidth limits, and enable add-ons like unlimited threads – all on a slider scale. Prices start at just $1/month.

Residential proxies offer pay-as-you-go pricing starting at $7 per GB used. You can scale up to handle large amounts of traffic without overpaying for unused IPs.

Add locations, increase threads and concurrency, set custom refresh rates, and enable unlimited authorizations to build the perfect plan.

Tips for Using Residential Proxies Effectively

Webshare's residential proxies can excel for use cases like ad verification, brand monitoring, retail data acquisition and more. Here are tips to use them effectively:

• Target specific countries/cities – Easily customize countries to match your needs
• Rotate IPs frequently – Critical for sites detecting datacenter IPs
• Reduce threading – Keep under 300 threads for optimal performance
• Watch data usage – Monitor usage to avoid overages since billed per GB
• Use for social media – Residential IPs mimic real mobile users
• Combine with browsers – Run proxies through tools like Puppeteer for full browser automation

Avoiding Blocks on High-Risk Sites

Here are some tips to avoid getting blocked on sites like Amazon, sneaker shops, and classifieds sites when scraping data:

• Use residential proxies – Much lower chance of blocks versus datacenter IPs
• Limit threads to under 50 – High threading signals automation
• Rotate IPs frequently – Change proxies every request or few minutes
• Slow down requests – Add delays between requests to humanize
• Retry on failures – Use proxies from alternative subnets if blocked
• Browser automation – Headless browser scraping blends in better

Complementary Tools and Real-World Examples

For best results, pair Webshare proxies with tools like:

• Proxy managers (Storm Proxies, ProxyMesh) to easily distribute proxies across tools and scripts
• Browser automation (Puppeteer, Playwright) for JavaScript rendering and cookies
• Data extraction libraries (Puppeteer-Extra, Playwright-Extra) to scrape surfaced content
• Rotating proxy APIs (Luminati, Oxylabs) for alternative backups

Some example use cases well-suited for Webshare:

• Retail price monitoring – Track prices across regions and stores
• Social media research – Analyze trends, followers, engagement
• Brand monitoring – Monitor reputations and reviews
• SEO competitor research – Analyze backlinks, keywords, traffic sources
• Ad verification – Validate campaign performance and placements

How Webshare Compares to the Competition

Here's a look at how Webshare compares to some leading proxy providers:

With its combination of strong performance, easy self-service access, and budget-friendly pricing, Webshare hits a sweet spot in the proxy market.

Conclusion

For users that need reliable, affordable proxies to access data, Webshare should be a top consideration:

• Speed and reliability – Consistently fast speeds and high success rates based on benchmarks
• Flexible pricing – Build fully customized plans with pay-as-you-go options
• Easy setup – Intuitive proxy management dashboard and APIs
• Support – Email-based support, detailed documentation

Webshare delivers excellent performance at very competitive rates. Their flexible plans and easy self-service model are perfect for individuals and small companies. For premium performance at budget prices, Webshare is hard to beat.