Show HN: Proxy-benchmark – is it the proxy, the browser, or your machine?

Category: devtools

Tags: proxy, benchmarking, web-scraping, browser-automation, reproducibility

Score: 6.8/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 6, Documentation: 9, Utility: 6)

A Python-based benchmarking harness that isolates whether request failures stem from the proxy, browser engine, host machine, or target itself by running controlled experiments across many combinations. It stands out for treating measurement itself as the deliverable, with every published number traceable to committed JSONL run files and unusual methodological rigor around controls and reproduction.

Target audience: backend devs, devops, data engineers, web scraping engineers

Repository: https://github.com/nodemaven/proxy-benchmark · Python · MIT · 13 stars

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