URL analysis now starts faster. The scraping phase completes in under 4 seconds on most pages, down from up to 15 seconds, with no change to how you submit URLs or read results.
URL analysis took longer than it should to start. The scraping phase — fetching the page before any analysis could begin — routinely consumed 10–15 seconds, leaving less time for the LLM pass and contributing to slow overall run times.
The delay was a product mismatch. ContentGrapher was using Bright Data's Scraping Browser: a full Chromium browser running over a persistent connection, designed for interactive automation like clicking and form-filling. ContentGrapher never does any of that — it reads HTML. Every analysis was paying the cost of a browser it didn't need.
Bright Data's Web Unlocker product covers ContentGrapher's actual use case — fetch rendered HTML with WAF bypass and bot protection handling — without the browser overhead. The Firecrawl fallback was already in place, making the migration low-risk.