GeoScreenshot is a convenient tool to preview how your webpage looks in multiple locations.

We use a global cluster of headless browsers to capture pages and stream the result directly to your browser.

Proxies are unreliable

• HTTP proxies can alter and filter your content.
• They do not provide consistent performance or uptime.
• They can be easily detected and blocked by third-party components on your webpage (ads).

What about VPNs?
While VPNs are a feasible solution, they are inconvenient for simultaneous testing of multiple locations.

• Many VPN providers rotate IP addresses for locations to anonymize the user. This makes it difficult for consistent Geo-IP testing.
• The IP addresses used may not be registered by GeoIP Database providers, in spite of the location of the data center.
• Toggling between different VPN locations requires system-wide changes, requires admin privileges and can be inconvenient for testing multiple locations.

The main advantage of using GeoScreenshot is convenience and efficiency. It can save you many hours that could be wasted on toggling between providers, and re-configuration for the different resolutions, user agents, and locales.

For anonymous users, we do not save images for anonymous users. However, we use caching to improve performance for identical requests, it is purged every 60 minutes.

For registered users, we save the images in PNG format, and they are archived in My Account.

We keep logs of all screenshot requests and the client's browser information. We only support web pages that are publicly accessible.

Since our workers capture pages in real-time, we have to use rate-limiting to prevent server overload.

For anonymous users, there is a limit of 50 screenshots / day and 200 screenshots total.

For registered users, the limit is based on the monthly quota. We do not have hourly restrictions.

Every unique screenshot deducts 1 point from your total credits.

We do not charge for multiple requests of the same URL / Resolution / User Agent combination, so you can fine-tune delay and other parameters to debug rendering issues.

Yes. Please send us a request, we will try to honor them on a popularity basis.

You can upgrade to a higher plan to increase your quota. Contact us if you need to capture more than 10,000 screenshots per month.

The capture history is an archive for your convenience. All the screenshots are available to be accessed for the public. If you would like to remove a specific file, let us know and we will delete it from our image server.

1. Invalid Page

   If the webpage has invalid HTML, it will not render correctly. Ensure the URL is valid

2. JavaScript Stall

   If the page at the URL executes invalid or inefficient JavaScript, the capture will fail.

Webpage too big

If the page at the URL is too big (consumes unusually large amounts of resources), the capture will be terminated.

3. Send us a report

   If your page does not work after checking the above, send us a report and we will look into it.

1. Slow server render time

   If the server at the URL does not return the page within 15 seconds, it will return a timeout.

2. Workers busy

   In the rare case that our workers experience unusually high traffic, you might encounter this error. Please try again after a few minutes.

3. Send us a report

   If your page does not work after checking the above, send us a report and we will look into it.

1. I see a blank screen

   This is usually caused by a slow loading website. Try increasing the delay in the config.

2. A portion of the page is blank

   If the webpage uses Flash Player, Silverlight or Java components, you will see a blank container in their place. We do not support Flash at the moment.

3. Page renders but styles are off

   Please send us an email with the problem URL and we will try our best to improve our rendering.

4. Some locations do not render

   A location worker can go down if it receives too many requests. We will auto scale our servers to meet traffic demand, please try it again in a few minutes.

1. Check viewport and delay

   If you specify high resolution or a long delay time, it will add to the render time of the page.

2. Location worker overloaded

   Try a different location with the same options and see if it renders quicker.
   If only some locations are slow, it is probably a server load issue. The worker cluster should automatically scale up within a few minutes, please try again.
   If all locations are slow, please report it.
   

3. Page renders but styles are off

   Please send us an email with the problem URL and we will try our best to improve our rendering.

4. Some locations do not render

   A location worker can go down if it receives too many requests. We will auto scale our servers to meet traffic demand, please try again in a few minutes.