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Show HN: GeoScreenshot – Test your website from many locations

#1

Post by kpsychwave » Fri, Sep 09, 2016, 8:10 PM UTC

Show HN: GeoScreenshot – Test your website from many locations
geoscreenshot.com

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#2

Post by kpsychwave » Fri, Sep 09, 2016, 9:20 PM UTC

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

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#3

Post by brudgers » Sun, Sep 11, 2016, 4:31 PM UTC

Homepage: https://www.geoscreenshot.com/capture

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#4

Post by blakesterz » Sun, Sep 11, 2016, 4:38 PM UTC

kpsychwave wrote: post #2

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

I'm guessing it's either my Privacy Badger or uBlock Origin, but the site's broken for me on Chrome 52 Ubuntu.

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#5

Post by jdsampayo » Sun, Sep 11, 2016, 6:11 PM UTC

Tried but always got "Encountered Problem"

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#6

Post by andrewl » Sun, Sep 11, 2016, 6:24 PM UTC

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.

Re: Show HN: GeoScreenshot – Test your website from many locations

#7

Post by dbg31415 » Sun, Sep 11, 2016, 6:38 PM UTC

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.

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#8

Post by batrat » Sun, Sep 11, 2016, 6:40 PM UTC

Not working on chrome & win 10

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#9

Post by corobo » Sun, Sep 11, 2016, 7:25 PM UTC

blakesterz wrote: post #4

kpsychwave wrote: post #2

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

I'm guessing it's either my Privacy Badger or uBlock Origin, but the site's broken for me on Chrome 52 Ubuntu.

"The site's broken" on Hacker News, really? Put some effort into reporting the problem!

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#10

Post by NetStrikeForce » Sun, Sep 11, 2016, 8:11 PM UTC

dbg31415 wrote: post #7

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.

For what purpose? It should be easier/lighter to check if the HTML, CSS or JS has changed if you'd like to detect a defacement or a site load issue (actually, the HTTP status code would be different for one or more resources; 404, 500, etc)