# DraftKings Proxies: 647 Words, Never Render

> DraftKings measured through residential proxies: 647 words over plain HTTP, 642 rendered for 2.88 MB, 5,418 words of NFL odds with no browser. One account each.

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# DraftKings Proxies: 647 Words, Never Render

Use casesSep 28, 2026·8 min read·By [Aldo Morese](https://quanticdata.io/about/), founder of QuanticData

What DraftKings Sportsbook serves a proxied client, measured on 28 September 2026: 647 words for 1,581,100 bytes without JavaScript, 642 words for 2,877,467 bytes rendered, and 5,418 words of NFL odds for 2,365,082 bytes without JavaScript, with a Canadian exit returning 697 and 5,611 words

On this page [Never render DraftKings: the browser returns fewer words](/blog/draftkings-proxies/#never-render-draftkings-the-browser-returns-fewer-words) [The odds are in the HTML of the league pages](/blog/draftkings-proxies/#the-odds-are-in-the-html-of-the-league-pages) [Canada is a different sportsbook](/blog/draftkings-proxies/#canada-is-a-different-sportsbook) [One account per person: the line from DraftKings' own terms](/blog/draftkings-proxies/#one-account-per-person-the-line-from-draftkings-own-terms) [robots.txt is 73 bytes](/blog/draftkings-proxies/#robots-txt-is-73-bytes) [Cost math with real numbers](/blog/draftkings-proxies/#cost-math-with-real-numbers) [The setting that works on DraftKings](/blog/draftkings-proxies/#the-setting-that-works-on-draftkings)

DraftKings is the sportsbook where the headless browser is pure waste. On 28 September 2026 we fetched sportsbook.draftkings.com through residential exits in the United States and Canada. The home page hands a plain HTTP client 647 words; rendering the same URL costs 2,877,467 bytes and 35 seconds and returns 642. The NFL odds page answers plain HTTP with 2,365,082 bytes and 5,418 words of lines, spreads and totals. A Canadian exit gets a different book, 697 words on the home page and 5,611 on NFL. And before any of that: DraftKings' terms allow one account per person, and no proxy changes it.

## Never render DraftKings: the browser returns fewer words

Every other target in this series has a render that adds something, even when it does not pay. DraftKings is the case where it subtracts. Our audit earlier this month counted 647 words without JavaScript and 642 rendered; the re-check on 28 September counted 640 without JavaScript. The rendered response is the application shell hydrating in front of the same server-rendered SEO block, and it arrives at 1.8 times the bytes.

| Fetch | Exit | Status | Bytes | Words | Time |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Home, no JavaScript | United States | 200 | 1,581,100 | 647 (640 on re-check) | 52 s under load |
| Home, rendered | United States | 200 | 2,877,467 | 642 | 34.8 s |
| Home, no JavaScript | Canada | 200 | n/a | 697 | 8 s |
| NFL odds page, no JavaScript | United States | 200 | 2,365,082 | 5,418 | 6.6 s |
| NFL odds page, no JavaScript | Canada | 200 | 2,382,690 | 5,611 | 8.1 s |

Three details in the head matter for a monitor. There is no canonical on the home page, from either country and in either mode, so deduplicate on the final URL yourself. The JSON-LD is a single `WebSite` object with no odds in it. And the Open Graph title is "Featured Betting Odds & Lines", which is the page's own description of what it is: a landing page, not the book. The home page is worth one fetch to confirm the site is up. The data is elsewhere.

## The odds are in the HTML of the league pages

The page a line-movement monitor wants is a league page, and it answers plain HTTP. `/leagues/football/nfl` returned 2,365,082 bytes, a self-referencing canonical, 48 headings, two tables and 5,418 words from a US residential exit in 6.6 seconds: every game on the board with spread, moneyline and total. No browser, no login, no cookie. The bytes are heavy because DraftKings ships the whole application with the page, but the odds are server-rendered inside it, and the raw HTML is what the fetch returns.

The size decides the product. At 2.37 MB a page, one fetch per minute for a day is 3.4 GB, and the same page through the [web scraping API](https://quanticdata.io/web-scraping-api/) without rendering is a flat $0.0002 regardless of weight. That is the cost table below in one sentence: on DraftKings the per-page product is nine times cheaper than the bytes.

## Canada is a different sportsbook

DraftKings runs a separate book for Ontario, and the exit IP selects it. The home page audited through a Canadian residential exit returned 697 words against 640 from the US; the NFL page returned 5,611 words and 2,382,690 bytes against 5,418 and 2,365,082. Those are different markets and, in places, different prices. The rule follows: pin the exit to the market whose lines you are recording, and never compare a Canadian snapshot against an American one. We measured at country level only; DraftKings also licenses state by state inside the US, and a state-targeted residential exit is the precise instrument for that, as our [bet365 measurement](https://quanticdata.io/blog/bet365-proxies/) showed for the UK against Germany, where the same URL returned 987 words from one and 149 from the other.

## One account per person: the line from DraftKings' own terms

The Terms of Use for DraftKings Sportsbook, last updated 08/05/2024 and organised by section heading rather than by clause number, say under **Eligibility**:

>

You may establish only one (1) Account per person to participate in the Services offered on the Website. In the event DraftKings discovers that you have opened more than one Account per person, in addition to any other rights that DraftKings may have, DraftKings reserves the right to suspend or terminate any or all of your Accounts and terminate, withhold or revoke the awarding of any winnings and prizes.

The same section, at item (f), bars "placing a wager as an agent of or proxy for any person or entity" who is not allowed to bet. That is the sense in which the search results use the word: in March 2022, New Jersey regulators fined DraftKings $150,000 for allowing a Florida man to bet from home through a friend in New Jersey, and the settlement voided 21 pending bets. And under **Conditions of Participation** the terms list, as improper conduct, "using automated means (including without limitation harvesting bots, robots, parser, spiders or screen scrapers) to obtain, collect or access any information on the Website or of any other user for any purpose".

The terms allow one account per person, forbid betting for someone else, forbid location spoofing by implication of the physical-location requirement, and forbid automated collection from the site; nothing in this post helps with any of it. What is left is narrow and honest: knowing what the site serves a logged-out client, so that anyone with a legitimate reason to look at public odds pages, from a compliance team to a researcher, does not pay for a browser that returns less.

## robots.txt is 73 bytes

The whole file is three rules: `Disallow: *wpsrc=*`, `Disallow: /update-app$` and `Disallow: *referrer*`. It disallows tracking parameters and an app-update route, and says nothing about league pages. That is common on sites whose real policy is in the contract, and it is why the previous section, not this one, is the constraint.

## Cost math with real numbers

Prices from our [pricing page](https://quanticdata.io/pricing/): [residential proxies](https://quanticdata.io/residential-proxies/) from $0.80/GB on the Basic line, and the web scraping API from $0.0002 per page, $0.001 with rendering, billed only on success. A gigabyte is counted as 10^9 bytes.

| Job | Bytes per request | Requests per GB | Cost per request | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Home, no JavaScript, residential | 1,581,100 | 632 | $0.00126 | 647 words, no odds |
| Home, rendered, residential | 2,877,467 | 347 | $0.00230 | 642 words: less, for more |
| NFL page, no JavaScript, residential, US | 2,365,082 | 423 | $0.00189 | 5,418 words of lines |
| NFL page, no JavaScript, residential, Canada | 2,382,690 | 420 | $0.00191 | 5,611 words of Ontario lines |
| NFL page, web scraping API, no render | n/a | n/a | $0.0002 | The same page, parsed, billed only on success |

One snapshot of the NFL board per minute costs $2.72 a day in residential bandwidth and $0.29 a day through the API. The rendered home page is the row to remember: $0.0023 for 642 words when $0.00126 buys 647. Telling you to skip the browser saves a third of the bytes on every home fetch and all of the render time, and it is the reason to believe the rest of this table.

## The setting that works on DraftKings

- **Network:** residential, Basic line at $0.80/GB. Sportsbooks score the network; every number here came through residential exits, and nothing challenged them in eight fetches.

- **Fetch mode:** `engine: tls`, plain HTTP, always. The home page returns 647 words without JavaScript and 642 with it for 2,877,467 bytes; the NFL page returns 5,418 words of odds without JavaScript. Never render this site.

- **Country to pin:** `country=us` for the US book. A Canadian exit returns a different sportsbook: 697 words on the home page and 5,611 on NFL instead of 640 and 5,418.

- **When the proxy is not enough:** the pages are 2.4 MB each, so send them through the [web scraping API](https://quanticdata.io/web-scraping-api/) without rendering at $0.0002 per page, nine times cheaper than the bytes. There is no DraftKings collector in our catalogue and, given the terms, we are not building one.

- **Free tier:** every account gets $2 of free API usage per month, which is 10,000 league-page fetches through the API.

### Sources & further reading

- [DraftKings Sportsbook Terms of Use (Eligibility, Conditions of Participation; last updated 08/05/2024)](https://sportsbook.draftkings.com/legal/ia-terms-of-use)

- [sportsbook.draftkings.com/robots.txt (fetched 28 September 2026)](https://sportsbook.draftkings.com/robots.txt)

- [NJ fines DraftKings $150,000 for allowing proxy betting, AP News, 3 March 2022](https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-sports-arts-and-entertainment-florida-a4b029fe6a4b5fed642455c463bec05f)

- [NFL Odds, Spreads & Lines, DraftKings Sportsbook (fetched 28 September 2026)](https://sportsbook.draftkings.com/leagues/football/nfl)

## FAQ

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### Should I render DraftKings pages?

No. On 28 September 2026 the home page returned 647 words to a plain HTTP client and 642 to a browser, for 1,581,100 bytes against 2,877,467 and 35 seconds of render time. The browser costs 1.8 times the bytes and returns fewer words. Plain HTTP is the only fetch mode that makes sense on this site.

### Can I read DraftKings odds without a browser?

Yes. The NFL league page returned 2,365,082 bytes and 5,418 words of spreads, moneylines and totals to a plain HTTP client from a US residential exit in 6.6 seconds, with a self-referencing canonical. The odds are server-rendered inside the page; the application shipped with them is what makes it 2.4 MB.

### Does the exit country change DraftKings?

Yes. A Canadian residential exit returned 697 words on the home page and 5,611 words on the NFL page, against 640 and 5,418 from the United States: DraftKings serves its Ontario book to Canadian IPs. Pin the exit to the market you are recording, and never diff one country against another.

### Can I use a proxy to bet on DraftKings from another state or country?

No, and we do not help with it. The Terms of Use require you to be physically located in the licensed jurisdiction, allow one (1) Account per person, and bar wagering as an agent or proxy for anyone else. In 2022 New Jersey fined DraftKings $150,000 over exactly that kind of proxy betting and voided 21 pending bets. A network proxy changes none of it.

### Does DraftKings allow scraping?

Its Terms of Use list using automated means, including bots, parsers, spiders and screen scrapers, to collect any information from the site for any purpose as improper conduct that can end an account. robots.txt is 73 bytes and says nothing about league pages, but the contract governs. This post describes what the site serves so you can decide what to pay for; it does not change what you are allowed to do.

### What does one DraftKings odds snapshot cost?

$0.00189 in residential bandwidth at $0.80/GB for the 2,365,082-byte NFL page, or $0.0002 through the web scraping API without rendering. One snapshot per minute for a day is $2.72 in bandwidth or $0.29 through the API, which is why the per-page product wins on this target.

## Weigh the page before you pay for the browser

Every number here came from one platform: fetch any URL over plain HTTP or through a browser, compare the two views, and see what each byte returns. Every account gets $2 of free API usage each month, and failed requests are never billed.

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