B
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65.8%
65.8% -- share using more proxies year over year for web-scraping professionals (2026)
65.8% of web-scraping professionals used more proxies than the year before.
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65.8%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
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B
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Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
60
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Apify / The Web Scraping Club
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Tier B
https://www.datamagnet.co/post/build-vs-buy-gtm-enrichment-layer/ ↗
Source Article
Build vs. Buy: Should You Build Your Own Enrichment Layer?
Disclosure: This article is published by Datamagnet. Vendor claims are self-reported unless otherwise noted.
Build vs. Buy: When Should GTM Engineers Build Their Own Enrichment Layer?
Most GTM engineers should buy the data layer and build the workflow on top of it — but that answer flips fast once y…
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Apify / The Web Scraping Club
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Methodology
Apify and The Web Scraping Club 2026 State of Web Scraping Report
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web-scraping professionals: 65.8% share using more proxies year over year. Source: Apify / The Web Scraping Club (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/apify-proxy-usage-2026
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