What's the Best Way to Test Proxy Servers for Reliability? or How Do You Properly Test Proxy Connecti

Bro, free proxies are trash 90% of the time. If you’re serious, get a paid one and use ScraperAPI’s proxy tester or Luminati’s checker.

For a quick test proxy check, I just load a page like whatismyipaddress.com and see if it changes. If it’s slow or errors out, ditch it.

Scripting is your friend tho—Python + requests lib can automate testing.