Your marketing site's pricing page breaks on mobile.
Also seems like you could automate this and run the check every 5 minutes, and then compare the screenshots to see if any of them are different, then alert the users.
I am working on a visual diff engine that will account for all of these, you can sign up for updates here:
I don't deal with a lot of sites that serve ads, but I do deal with a lot of sites that are on CDNs. Was more my target user group.
I did a quick price/feature comparison and it appears to be a toss-up depending on what you need. Any thoughts on how you plan to distinguish yourself from this other service? Selecting your location is definitely a cool idea- good work!
GeoScreenshot has a simpler and more intuitive UI so you can go back/forth between new captures and your history without having to reload pages.
Our pricing model is also simpler, we give you more locations and options for the plus plan. The free account with all the "plus" options enabled, so you know what you are paying for.
At the time of this writing, we offer 7 free locations and > 60 plus locations. For our advanced plan, you can select from > 420 cities from nearly every country in the world. We will set up a dedicated worker in that region.
Some examples of advanced locations:
https://www.geoscreenshot.com/country/united-states https://www.geoscreenshot.com/country/saudi-arabia https://www.geoscreenshot.com/country/china
---
I would also like to add:
The main advantage of using GeoScreenshot over buying a proxy list or a VPN is convenience and efficiency. To minimize the headaches and man hours spent on website testing.
There are significant man hour costs and technical barriers with using VPNs/proxies, changing view ports, clearing cache, shifting browsers, system settings, locale settings, time zones.
This seems useful from a very high level, but if someone wants more data points I'm sure they would use something more robust.
But for most companies use GeoIP targeting for things like:
Currency and Dynamic Pricing Locale (date time formats, languages), Dynamic translation functionality Determining visitor origins Custom ads/messaging Redirection to local websites (Amazon, Google, Craigslist use this) IP-based blocking (for cyber attack protection)
I would think that something like Hotjar is more useful for studying user behavior (how it varies across regions) than testing website functionality.
I will have to to more digging to see if they do the actual recordings from servers in those particular regions, or if they just map geo-filtered data over a standard video recording (with the assumption that it renders the same everywhere)
If it can be made to work reliably, I could see my company paying for it.
There was a spike about 2 hours ago and the app exceeded an hourly quota. It should good to go now.
Please contact me at contact@geoscreenshot.com with your needs, I offer custom solutions for companies.
If it is yours, thanks for reporting it, I have pushed the fix down the pipeline. Its not giving a 403 anymore, but still doesn't render properly.
I have tried to debug it with a different engine but it looks like the site has JS based browser detection (not based on user agent strings). Since its a headless browser, some JS functionality is unavailable, and super dynamic sites break. Another limitation I am working around.
Our more basic screenshot tool is up at http://shotsherpa.com
I would really appreciate it if you could send me any bugs, screenshots, suggestions to contact@geoscreenshot.com
