CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORY Red Label Vacations Stopped Web Scraping Bots2 Leading Job Site Blocks Bots Gennaro set up a free trial with Imperva and the full implementation followed within weeks. Overview Red Label Vacations, Canada’s largest independent online travel company, had a problem. For five years running, their flagship website, RedTag.ca, suffered brownouts for up to an hour per day during peak months. Rob Gennaro, Digital Marketing Officer at Red Label Vacations, watched as visitors became frustrated when the site slowed, became unavailable, or were unable to make queries and complete transactions. Gennaro checked his logs and saw the problem clearly: web scraping bots were hitting the database hard — creating bottlenecks — and their homegrown solution for blocking IP addr

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