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Ask HN: How to test website from different locations?
Is there a way to see if my website/service is accessible from different countries?
At the moment I fire up VPN, open browser in incognito mode, go to URL click link or two, take a screenshot as proof that web is up and running and then I move to the next one.
There must be a better way to do that. Is there a service for this? I was thinking about some automation maybe, but I lack selenium skills and I don't know how to activate VPN over the script.
- mtmail 4y agoThere's services specialized in crawling + VPN. Often used to crawl shopping websites or Google result pages. One example is https://www.scrapingbee.com https://www.scrapingbee.com and you select the country https://www.scrapingbee.com/documentation/country_codes/ https://www.scrapingbee.com/documentation/country_codes/ They can do screenshots, too. If the concern is uptime there's a couple of service that also do regular screenshots and alerts when the website is slow or unresponsive. https://www.debugbear.com/ https://www.debugbear.com/ for example. For a super quick check (every couple of months I need this) I usually use https://www.webpagetest.org/ https://www.webpagetest.org/ Under 'advanced configuration' there's a dropdown of locations around the world. I gives a screenshot but not access to the full HTML.
- LLcolD 4y agoI really like webpagetest.org. Thank you!
- oriettaxx 4y agouh, many: I've intensively used these two: https://www.webpagetest.org https://www.webpagetest.org https://tools.pingdom.com https://tools.pingdom.com
- LLcolD 4y agoGreat. Webtestpage reminds me of https://browsershots.org/ https://browsershots.org/ that is down for some time.
- seedless-sensat 4y agoDatadog Synthetics is nice, and reports great telemetry. It supports like 20 locations: https://docs.datadoghq.com/synthetics/ https://docs.datadoghq.com/synthetics/
- lolovaldez 4y agobunny.net has a nice global latency test. Does not provide screenshots but gives you a nice overall of how fast the site is getting serve world wide. https://tools.bunny.net/latency-test https://tools.bunny.net/latency-test
- dieselgate 4y agoYou can spoof the useragent and IP address as well, that's typically how I manage Geo testing at work.
- aaron695 4y ago[dead]