{"id":715,"date":"2023-10-18T14:47:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T14:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.royadata.com\/?p=715"},"modified":"2023-10-18T14:47:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T14:47:43","slug":"microleaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/microleaves\/","title":{"rendered":"Microleaves Review (Microleaves now is Shifter.io)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trying to buy proxies from Microleaves? Read our reviews before you do that as we have a lot of unveiling to do. With what you\u2019ll learn, you can now decide whether to buy from them or not.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Microleaves Overview<\/span><\/h2>\n
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<\/span>Take note, Microleaves is rebrand their name as Shifter.io<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I am going to be providing an honest review of Microleaves and their residential proxies in this article. Lately, there has been a lot of noise about Microleaves. Some will tell you it\u2019s one of the best residential proxy providers; others will tell you they had a bad experience using them.<\/p>\n

To clear the air and give you an unbiased review of Microleaves, we carried out our own research and did some testing in the area of web scraping performance and internet connection speed. The result will be discussed in this review article. Before discussing the good aspects and bad aspects of Microleaves, let take a look at a brief overview of Microleaves.<\/p>\n

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Microleaves is one of the oldest proxy providers in the market. It graced the market in 2012 and since then, has risen and become one of the most popular proxy providers in the industry. It has one of the largest proxy networks in the market and has got its own unique features that set it aside from its competitors.<\/p>\n

One of the things that separate it from other residential proxy providers<\/a> is that while most of them provide a metered internet connection, Microleaves backconnect proxies are unmetered, and your internet connection is not cut off after you have used a certain bandwidth.<\/p>\n

This together with its cheaper pricing have made them a popular choice. However, they also have some bad aspects such as connection errors and performing average in terms of Internet speed compared to other competitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Parameter<\/th>\nFeature<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
IP Type<\/strong><\/td>\nResidential\/ Datacenter<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Price Charged<\/strong><\/td>\nPort<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Price Sample<\/strong><\/td>\n10 Ports \u2013 $125 (Monthly)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pool Of IPs<\/strong><\/td>\n26+ Million<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Proxy Protocol<\/strong><\/td>\nHTTP(S) and Socks5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
IP Rotation<\/strong><\/td>\nSticky Session (Time)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Filtering\/Targeting <\/strong><\/td>\nCountries<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Authentication<\/strong><\/td>\nIP Authentication and Username\/Password<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Speed<\/strong><\/td>\nAverage<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Free Trial<\/strong><\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Refund Policy<\/strong><\/td>\n3 days<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Support<\/strong><\/td>\nContact Form, and Detailed FAQ<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jurisdiction Location<\/strong><\/td>\nBritain<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

<\/i> Visit microleaves.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n

<\/span>Microleaves Pros (Now is Shifter)<\/span><\/h2>\n

This section of the article will be used to discuss the area our research reveals to us that Microleaves excels. Without much ado, let dive straight into the pros.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Has one of the Largest IP Pool and Location Coverage<\/span><\/h3>\n

As I stated earlier, this proxy provider steps its feet into the industry in 2012 as reverseproxies.com before rebranding into a more robust proxy provider. Since its founding, it has grown to have one of the largest proxy networks in the market, with over 26 million residential IP addresses in its pool.<\/p>\n

As far as public knowledge is concerned, only two providers have more proxies than Microleaves \u2013 Brightdata formerly Luminati<\/a> has over 72 million, and Smartproxy<\/a> has over 40 million in their pools. This gives it the third position in terms of IP pool size.<\/p>\n

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Not only is their pool enough for whatever activities you need proxies for, but this pool also gets refreshed, and bad IPs are removed from the pool when they are discovered to be blocked or nonfunctional. The geographical coverage is also one of the important points here \u2013 Microleaves has proxies in many countries.<\/p>\n

However, unlike other providers, they do not provide a comprehensive list of countries they have proxies in. Also, their proxies are strictly country-specific as you cannot request residential IPs from specific cities like in the case of Luminati.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Good Pricing & Unlimited bandwidth<\/span><\/h3>\n

Like I stated earlier, their pricing is their main selling point, aside from the size of their IP pool. Most residential proxies are metered. This means that they are sold in bandwidth, and you need to pay additional fees to continue enjoying their service after you have exhausted the data you paid for. However, in the case of Microleaves, they charge per port rather than bandwidth, and as such, you will enjoy an unlimited Internet connection with them ones you have subscribed.<\/p>\n

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<\/span>Money-Back Guarantee Provided<\/span><\/h3>\n

If you have read the other reviews written about other proxies, you\u2019ll notice that refund policy wasn\u2019t discussed either as a pro or a con. However, it has been included here. This is because unlike most of the proxies discussed, Microleaves has received a lot of backlash from its users and as such, most people will only make use of it if they are assured that they will get their money back if the proxies fail to carry out the function it was intended for. Microleaves has a 3-day refund policy to effect that.<\/p>\n

However, because their free trials have been abused a lot by spammers, it is no longer available, and as such, you must spend money to use them.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Accepted Scraping Performance for Some Sites<\/span><\/h3>\n

I use the phrase, \u2018some sites\u2019 for a reason \u2013 Microleaves perform terribly on some sites according to our scraping performance test. On others, the result was just average and not too good as compared to other competitors.<\/p>\n

However, that does not mean it is not functional; it just means that it works on other sites and flops on others. You\u2019ll do yourself a measure of good to look beyond the average performance score (which is 77 in this case) and concentrate on specific site performance test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Performance on 300 Concurrent connections<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Test<\/strong><\/td>\nSuccess Rate (%)<\/strong><\/td>\nError (%)<\/strong><\/td>\nTimeOut (%)<\/strong><\/td>\nBlock (%)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Amazon<\/td>\n70<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n17<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Adidas<\/td>\n72<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n18<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Booking<\/td>\n92<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bing.com<\/td>\n70<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n25<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Craigslist<\/a><\/td>\n80<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n18<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Instagram<\/td>\n85<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nike<\/td>\n89<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Linkedin<\/a><\/td>\n78<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n18<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Google<\/td>\n62<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Youtube<\/a><\/td>\n67<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n25<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n77<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The scraping performance result table above is not impressive, but at least it is acceptable for some websites, for they offer.<\/p>\n

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One thing I came to realize is that as we reduce concurrent connection, the number of errors drastically reduced. However, the test done for other proxy providers was done using 300 Concurrent connections, and as such, we have to stick to it. This means that if your concurrent connection is fewer, you\u2019ll get fewer blocks and errors<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Acceptable Proxy Speed<\/span><\/h3>\n

<\/span>Response Time<\/span><\/h4>\n

Because of the feeling I already testing their scraping performance, I was expecting Microleaves not to perform well during the response time test \u2013 alas, I was wrong. Even though it never perform better than the other premium residential proxy providers, its performance was not that poor. Below is the chart showing the result of the Microleaves response time test.<\/p>\n

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Average Response Time (s): 4.433<\/p>\n

Looking at the combo chart displayed above, you will observe that the average response time is 4.02 seconds.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Proxy Connection Speed<\/span><\/h4>\n

To complete the proxy speed test, we had to subject their residential proxies to the Speedtest<\/a> tool to ascertain it download and upload speed as this is equally an important factor to many proxy users. Again, the result we got was acceptable even though it wasn\u2019t the fastest.<\/p>\n