What is Residential proxy?

A proxy that routes requests through consumer internet connections.

Residential IPs look like ordinary visitors, so they are blocked less often than datacenter IPs, but they cost more (typically billed per GB). Reputable providers source them with user consent.

Related terms

• Geo-grid rank tracking: Checking a business's Google Maps ranking from many points on a map grid.
• Datacenter proxy: A proxy running on cloud or hosting servers.
• Web scraping: Automatically collecting publicly available data from websites.