Infrastructure & Anti-detect
Proxy Speed
The connection speed/latency of a given proxy — critical for account warm-up and browsing realism.
Proxy speed is the throughput and latency of a given proxy connection — how fast pages load and requests complete when routed through it. It varies enormously by proxy class: datacenter lines are fastest, residential depends on the host household's connection, and mobile carries the highest latency due to carrier network overhead and shared bandwidth.
Speed is not just comfort — it affects survival and economics. Sluggish proxies make account warm-up sessions painfully slow, cause timeouts in Ads Managers during bulk edits, and can distort a profile's behavioral realism when every action takes seconds. Buyers test speed on delivery of every batch, since providers oversell ports and a proxy that benchmarked fine at purchase can crawl a month later under load from other customers.
In buyer speech
“That port is down to dial-up speeds — warming an account through it takes an hour per session, ask the provider to move us.”