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Show HN: GeoScreenshot – Test your website from many locations

by kpsychwave on 9/9/16, 8:10 PM with 31 comments

  • by preinheimer on 9/12/16, 1:21 AM

    If you need to actually navigate your website from different locations we can give you a hand: https://wonderproxy.com/ we have proxy servers in >200 locations around the world.

    Our more basic screenshot tool is up at http://shotsherpa.com

  • by josh_carterPDX on 9/12/16, 12:24 AM

    We use Hotjar recordings to see what people see from various regions. It's pretty useful in that we can see how the page loads for users outside of the US. But beyond that, we can see what they interact with on the page.

    This seems useful from a very high level, but if someone wants more data points I'm sure they would use something more robust.

  • by cmillard on 9/11/16, 10:01 PM

    This looks similar to:

    https://geopeeker.com/

    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!

  • by andrewl on 9/11/16, 6:24 PM

    I like what you're offering, but I just get an "Encountered Problem" error in the latest version of Chrome on Windows 10. And I was testing a very minimal site with just the London location, so load should have been low. Load from my one test, that is. You may be getting a lot of other traffic.

    If it can be made to work reliably, I could see my company paying for it.

  • by kpsychwave on 9/11/16, 9:14 PM

    If you got the "Encountered Problem" error, there was an unexpected spike and traffic a few hours ago, and the API was blocking requests. The server is back up now.

    I would really appreciate it if you could send me any bugs, screenshots, suggestions to contact@geoscreenshot.com

  • by dbg31415 on 9/11/16, 6:38 PM

    Cool idea.

    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.

  • by brudgers on 9/11/16, 4:31 PM

  • by bhartzer on 9/12/16, 2:18 AM

    Looks like it still is encountering problems, I get a 403 error from London an ny. Might be cloudflare blocking it?

  • by kpsychwave on 9/9/16, 9:20 PM

    Just added London, Singapore and Amsterdam to the free offering. Please post any questions/feature requests here.

  • by jdsampayo on 9/11/16, 6:11 PM

    Tried but always got "Encountered Problem"

  • by batrat on 9/11/16, 6:40 PM

    Not working on chrome & win 10