# Visualping Reviews **Vendor:** Visualping **Category:** [Website Change Monitoring Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/website-change-monitoring) **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 429 ## About Visualping Visualping monitors any webpage and alerts you when it is updated. The alert is sent via email or text message but also via any team notification service like MS Teams, Slack and also API or by entering a row in a spreadsheet. Visualping AI recognizes when a change is important or trivial and flags this in the email. This allows you to filter and focus only on the most relevant changes. Our AI also summarizes what changed since the last time it checked the page so you can save time. Our email notifications include a screenshot of the page with a highlighted area showing the change. Our dashboard provides more analysis tools. Visualping is used to automate monitoring of competitor websites, gain insight into market trends, product launches, pricing strategies, regulatory changes and thousands of other use cases. ## Visualping Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users love the **ease of use** of Visualping, appreciating its intuitive interface and flexible monitoring settings. (39 reviews) - Users value the **easy tracking of webpage changes** , allowing them to stay updated without daily checks. (24 reviews) - Users value the **flexible monitoring options** of Visualping, allowing easy adjustments for specific needs and timely updates. (23 reviews) - Users appreciate the **ease of setup** with Visualping, enabling quick access to valuable notifications and insights. (22 reviews) - Users highlight the **incredibly easy setup** of Visualping, allowing quick access to monitoring website changes effectively. (21 reviews) - Users value the **reliable change detection** of Visualping, allowing them to effortlessly monitor competitor websites and updates. (20 reviews) - Setup Ease (20 reviews) - Users appreciate the **timely and accurate alerts** from Visualping, ensuring they stay informed about important website changes. (18 reviews) - Alert Notifications (16 reviews) - Time-saving (16 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users experience **false alerts** from Visualping, requiring significant time to manage unnecessary notifications and refine settings. (17 reviews) - Users experience **ineffective notifications** with Visualping, facing false alerts and needing better filtering options. (17 reviews) - Users often face **excessive notifications** from Visualping, resulting in wasted time and frustration despite recent improvements. (8 reviews) - Users are frustrated with **false positives** flooding notifications, wasting time and complicating the user experience significantly. (7 reviews) - Users report **inaccuracy issues** with Visualping, often flagging non-significant changes and struggling with many websites. (7 reviews) - Users find the **free version's limitations** frustrating, often necessitating an upgrade for adequate monitoring capabilities. (7 reviews) - Users express frustration with **platform limitations** , such as needing multiple checks for different screen sizes and restricted free options. (6 reviews) - Time-consuming (6 reviews) - Update Issues (6 reviews) - Alert Issues (5 reviews) ## Visualping Reviews ### 1. Fantastic tool to monitor competitors **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Duke B. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 15, 2023 **What do you like best about Visualping?** Visualping has many different options to alert you of changes to just about any website you wish to monitor. Just set it and forget it. You'll get emails and/or alerts when the changes take place. It even allows you to rate how well it did with detecting the change so that it can adjust moving forward. **What do you dislike about Visualping?** Some of the websites I have used it on are dynamic maps and sometimes the wait x amount of seconds function isn't the greatest, which will trigger a false change on the map it is monitoring. It just requires some adjustments to your settings but it is the only issue I've had thus far. **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** Visualping is monitoring a dynamic map that gets updated by a 3rd party without notice. So having a tool that is eliminating a manual task and some guesswork from my daily task list has been really beneficial. It also gives us a competitive advantage. ### 2. Save your valuable time with this awesome automation tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tyler V. S. | Attorney, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2023 **What do you like best about Visualping?** I do not need to keep checking the same website every day to see if there has been some change. Instead, thanks to Visualping, I am automatically notified any time there is a change to the website I am interested in following. Huge time-saver. **What do you dislike about Visualping?** I am not aware of any downsides. I have been satisfied with the website. **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** When I want to keep an eye on what others are doing, I could visit and re-visit their website every day. Or I could enter the website into Visualping and let them notify me of any changes. It is the easiest way to be informed of changes to a website, allowing me to work smarter, not harder. ### 3. Regulatory Change Management **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2023 **What do you like best about Visualping?** Visualping was very intuitive to use. I work for a regulated entity and my role requires me to be quickly updated on regulatory changes that may affect my organisation and industry. Having a website monitoring tool is therefore really helpful. I have used a few other similar tools in my line of work and I find Visualping among the most straightforward to set up and get going, without need for extensive training materials. There is also a free pricing tier, which is great if you want to try it out, or do not need the bells and whistles. **What do you dislike about Visualping?** Not sure if this is a limitation only for the free tier, but you do have to log in to your Visualping account at least once every 3 months to keep it active. Visualping does send a reminder 3 days prior to that, but I've occasionally had my monitoring paused because I neglected to log in within the period. To be fair, it was easy to reactivate (just needed to login), and hey, I rarely log in to my account because there's really no need to since the monitoring runs smoothly. **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having an automated tool to help monitor pages on a website on a daily basis removes the task from having to be done manually, and eliminates manual error. ### 4. It's great for monitoring changes to competitors' websites! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2023 **What do you like best about Visualping?** My company uses VisualPing to monitor the press release pages of our competitors' websites so that whenever they publish anything, we find out about it very quickly but do not have to concern ourselves with the overhead of manually checking for updates. The nicest thing about using VisualPing for this purpose is that it does not require a great depth of technical knowledge to set up. Setting up rules to listen for changes is very intuitive and anyone can do it. **What do you dislike about Visualping?** Sometimes we get alerts about cosmetic changes to websites. This is to be expected given how VisualPing works, but it is not ideal. Fortunately, it does not happen very often. **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** VisualPing is enabling us to keep updated on press releases from our competitors without us needing to manually keep updated on them. This benefits us because it enables us to quickly pivot in our product design if and when it is appropriate to do so. ### 5. Great for keeping track of competitors, news sources, etc **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tom M. | Co-Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 28, 2023 **What do you like best about Visualping?** It's very reliable and also makes it easy to figure out immediately what changed, with both the visual & text-based diffs. It's also super easy to set up - all you need to do is just plug in a URL and how often it should check. I use it for a bunch of websites that I don't expect to change that often, but when they do change I really want to know. **What do you dislike about Visualping?** Nothing, really! It really gets the job done for what I need. **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** It solves the problem of having to check a potential competitor's website really often, when in reality they'll only do updates every few months. So instead, of having to check, I just get an email when I need to look. ### 6. Useful for detecting changes in an online data set **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Biotechnology | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2023 **What do you like best about Visualping?** I like that I can configure the sensitivity of the alert notifications. The dataset that I need to refer to changes daily, with a "date last changed" field at the bottom of the web page. I don't need to be notified of every time the web page changes, only when significant changes are made - and the interface allows you to adjust your sensitivity for notifications. **What do you dislike about Visualping?** None that I am aware of. The service functions as intended. **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** Pesticides used in our facility need to be approved and registered with a government body for use on the product on which they are being applied and I am using Visualping to notify me of registration changes on the registration website. Visualping notifies me when products are added or removed from the registry without me needing to lookup products every time we use them. It also notifies me when new products are registered that may be more effective than previous registrants. ### 7. Haven't missed a change yet **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Apparel & Fashion | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2023 **What do you like best about Visualping?** We were considering developing a solution to monitor external sites for changes, but decided to trial Visualping instead. This turned out to be the right choice, as Visualping is easy to configure, and its accuracy is impressive. We have been using it for almost a year and in that time we have never missed an update to our monitored sites. When alerted for changes, the slider comparision interface makes it easy to spot the differences between the old version of the page and new. **What do you dislike about Visualping?** Visualping can detect both visual and text changes to a page, but if the same information appears on a page in a different order, it will still trigger a change. This is not generally an issue for our use cases, and we would prefer a few false positives to missed changes. **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** We need to know when websites of interest change, so we can react to those changes. Before using Visualping, this was a manual process which was time-consuming and inconsistent. ### 8. Setting alerts for out of stock items, classified ads for unique items, etc **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2024 **What do you like best about Visualping?** It is very simple and effective to use. It is not buggy, it just works! **What do you dislike about Visualping?** I see no downsides with visualping, i recommend it to friends and family often. **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me to find when out of stock items come back into stock, or find rare items come up in classified ads. **Official Response from Eric Do Couto:** > Thanks for the review, we hope that you'll continue to use Visualping for your website change notifications and alerts. - The Visualping Team ### 9. Automate your checks and feel at ease **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mike F. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 06, 2023 **What do you like best about Visualping?** This tool is one I keep finding uses for outside the usual. I use it for watching competitors when they update their sites, watching pages like ToS for changes, watching for changes from the marketing team so I can be informed when a new campaign happens, and watching internal status pages for errors. The list keeps going. **What do you dislike about Visualping?** As more websites start implementing robot checks, I've noticed Visualping is struggling to ping sites that require you to confirm you're not a robot. Then, it becomes a manual check. I would also like a way to group pings into folders/buckets for easier management. **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simply for pinging and alerting on websites I need to keep on top of. There is no more need for me to add a calendar reminder to do these tasks. The more time I'm not wasting constantly checking, the more valuable time I spent on other things. ### 10. A Game-Changer for Competitive Intelligence! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2023 **What do you like best about Visualping?** I recently had the pleasure of utilizing Visual Ping's suite of tools for competitive intelligence, and I must say, it has been nothing short of a game-changer for our business. The user-friendly interface of Visual Ping's tools makes the process of gathering, analyzing, and interpreting data a breeze. From competitor analysis to market trends, the tools offer a comprehensive set of features that cater to every aspect of competitive intelligence. What sets Visual Ping apart is their commitment to providing real-time insights, ensuring that our team is always equipped with the latest information to make informed decisions. **What do you dislike about Visualping?** Occasional false positive when elements shift on a page. **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** The depth of information provided by Visual Ping's tools is truly impressive. From tracking competitors' product launches to monitoring social media sentiments, the tools leave no stone unturned. This comprehensive approach enables us to anticipate market trends, identify potential opportunities, and mitigate risks proactively. Moreover, the customizable alerts and notifications feature ensures that we are always in the loop. Whether it's a sudden shift in competitor strategy or a new market entrant, Visual Ping's tools keep us informed in real-time, empowering us to adapt swiftly to changing landscapes. ### 11. Overall you get what you'd expect, but not what you deserve. **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Performing Arts | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 18, 2023 **What do you like best about Visualping?** I like the way you can decide % of change to get alerts for, and the option to measure change by the way the website appears visually. I feel this is unique over the competition. I like that you are pre-warned when you're tracking too many sites, or too many times a day to remain in the "free zone". **What do you dislike about Visualping?** I was transferred to this service from an original site that I would assume VP bought out. I feel like the original Tracker was more flexible, would send more results more often, and would allow for digests. All without charging for every niggling thing they did. VP limits everything that was free or nominal before, so unless you're using it to *MAKE* money, those limitations will annoy you tremendously. **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keep up-to-the-minute (or at least close-to that) with site changes that I'd instead have to constantly be refreshing myself for. **Official Response from Visualping Admin:** > Thank you for sharing your feedback with us. We understand your concerns about the service. We are constantly working to improve our offerings based on customer feedback. ### 12. A godsend for staying up-to-date when other tools fail **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2023 **What do you like best about Visualping?** There are a lot of tools out there for staying on top of important updates -- RSS, newsletters, Google Alerts, and so forth. But a lot of the time, they simply aren't available, or take too long to notify, or don't include all updates. Both in my previous experience at large corporations, and in my current role running several websites, Visualping has been essential in keeping track of sudden changes in the competitive landscape -- whether new information updates about companies and their products, new publications by niche experts, and even pricing changes. **What do you dislike about Visualping?** The main downside is that sometimes I get false alerts, like when a page adds or removes a temporary header that shifts the content vertically. **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** Staying on track of when competing sites add new features, new employees, or other relevant corporate information that isn't available any other way except for checking website updates ### 13. Visualping Significantly Reduces (Regulatory) Website Monitoring Burden & Risk **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cody R. | Program Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 27, 2023 **What do you like best about Visualping?** Visualping is very easy to setup and use for varying types of website monitoring. Our organization uses Visualping to track nearly 50 state and national government webpages for regulatory documentation updates and additions, which helps ensure we are the first to know, and no longer subject to the normal delay and associated risk of waiting for official communication. Customer support has been very responsive to help accomodate our needs. **What do you dislike about Visualping?** Visualping does not allow us to break-out recipient groups (i.e. email distros) within a given workspace. This forces us to manage multiple workspaces with similar foci, in order to ensure appropriate recipient lists and reduce noise, based on specific roles and expertise. **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** Visualping helps ensure we are the first to know about government regulatory changes that apply to our products, reducing monitoring burden and associated risk. ### 14. Fantastic website tracking & monitoring! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amelia L. | Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 22, 2023 **What do you like best about Visualping?** As a new, small business owner I find it very easy to use Visualping and it is very user friendly. I've started using it for monitoring my competitors or other folks in my industry to see the frequency of content they post and the alerts from VP help me stay current on this. **What do you dislike about Visualping?** None so far to be honest as it does what its intended and supposed to do. **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** I no longer have to go back and forth to check competitor social media accounts for new content or spend too much time scrolling through social media in general to find information I need on those I follow. ### 15. An amazing idea and tool, but not quite there yet **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2023 **What do you like best about Visualping?** This tool is exactly what I'm looking for. I need a service that can check websites of interest and report to me when a specific element on that page changes. All I have to do is spend some time setting it up once and it does the rest for me. **What do you dislike about Visualping?** It's a little bit difficult to set up and use. It's difficult to select the exact element on the page I want it to check for. It also doesn't work as well as I was hoping. Even though I selected a specific element on a page, it still notifies me when anything else on that page changes instead of just that specific element. If this could be fixed, this tool would be perfect. **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** I needed a service that could automatically check websites of interest and notify me when a specific element on the page changes. ### 16. Visualping - for when you need more than just news alerts **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Annie J. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 26, 2023 **What do you like best about Visualping?** I've utilized Visualping in several capacities and it's such an easy setup to use. Working in the event space, I would want to know when calls for vendors or presenters became available and Visualping has saved me from having to chase those down. Similarly, as a job seeker, I've used it to keep track of openings at other companies - I've even used it to keep track of when jobs are listed at my own company to stay up to date! **What do you dislike about Visualping?** Because it's a set and forget situation, there are times I could be reminded of the tool more often. Like quarterly email reviewing what I have setup and some other use cases. **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** Communication, I'm looking at how to speed up data sharing when the website holds the source of truth. ### 17. Crucial for catching site errors and keeping up with competitor sites **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Printing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 02, 2023 **What do you like best about Visualping?** It's easy to set up a monitor on a specific site or portion of a page or even just a specific HTML element. This has been crucial for keeping tabs on competitor sites for updates to their content but also has helped us catch display errors or issues on our own sites. We get alerts for any content on other industry sites so we can keep up with latest offerings and campaigns our competitors are featuring. For our own sites it's been a life-saver as a basic uptime monitor can't catch if just a form or a single element has an erorr but Visualping does. **What do you dislike about Visualping?** Sometimes Visualping will be too sensitive. It will catch changes that don't apply to what we're monitoring. Luckily you can narrow the scope of each monitor to a specific element or keyword so you can refine to reduce false positives. **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keeping up with competitors and their latest offerings as well as monitoring our own sites for errors. ### 18. Intuitive and rapid to set up for automatic change monitoring **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** M W. | Senior Associate (Patent Attorney), Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2023 **What do you like best about Visualping?** Visualping is an easy and quick website allowing automated monitoring of changes to websites. It's particularly useful for those awaiting the electronic publication of legal decisions, new regulatory standards, etc who do not wish to be checking a website each day for updates. I've only used the free tier, but it has been more than suitable for my needs. **What do you dislike about Visualping?** I've not encountered any downsides or dislikes on the free tier. **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** Visualping allows the monitoring of multiple websites/portals for updates or release of legal or regulatory change documents. It provides an automated service such that manual checking of the website by a user is no longer required. ### 19. Excellent tool for monitoring **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christopher W. | Dermatology Resident Physician, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2023 **What do you like best about Visualping?** Visualping helps me to monitor various websites for different needs. I can monitor when applications are open for a job I am interested in, when the price drops for a product I am interested in purchasing, and when meeting times for various organizations are updated. It is truly a pleasure to have these notifications sent right to my inbox. **What do you dislike about Visualping?** I only wish I had more checks with a free account. It is such a useful service for my needs. **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** Some websites do not provide any email notification when it changes. I am thankful that Visualping exists to provide those timely notifications with those changes. ### 20. Easiest way to track regulatory changes **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marcos Antonio de Lima F. | PhD Candidate, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2023 **What do you like best about Visualping?** Visualping has the best usability among website change trackers. Setting up alerts is a breeze, and I love that I can pick exactly which parts of a page to watch. Super smooth setup, no headaches. It's been a game-changer for me over the past year. I don't have to waste time anymore checking websites to track regulatory changes. It's like having a personal assistant that does the boring stuff for me. **What do you dislike about Visualping?** No comments. The free tier is more than enough to get started and evaluate the product. **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** Visualping automates the monitoring of website changes, saving me the hassle of manually checking for updates. ### 21. Excellent software for automated website monitoring, change detection, and alerts! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Paul C. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 26, 2023 **What do you like best about Visualping?** Visualping is a cost effective and efficient tool for monitoring website postings and changes. For our work in the public and non-profit sector, it has been very beneficial for us to monitor specific pages related to projects we are working on and then to be automactially notified when new information is posted - without having to manually check the site, or worse, miss an update. I like the amount of customization that is available. From setting the frequency of alerts, sensitivity to trigger alerts, to even selecting the area of the page or elements to be monitored, the product is very customizable and well throught out. **What do you dislike about Visualping?** I have not experienced any downsides to using the service. **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** Monitoring municipal postings and public notices on municipal websites. ### 22. Great product, innovative features and excellent support & communication **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tim P. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2023 **What do you like best about Visualping?** Flexibility of exactly how / when websites are monitored for changes - visual vs text, daily vs hourly, etc. The user interface is very intuitive and simple to configure. The format of the email notifications are user-friendly and easy to understand at a glance exactly what has changed. **What do you dislike about Visualping?** Currently I am using a free version so am limited in the number of checks I can perform, but it's still working well for my current needs. **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** Visualping helps me to have near-instant access to changes in regulatory guidelines to ensure that our business is prepared well in advance of new upcoming requirements. ### 23. Easy setup and reliable updates **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jonathan M. | Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2023 **What do you like best about Visualping?** Using Visualping to keep track of key pages from competitors and even our site changes has allowed for easy monitoring helping us make strategic changes on our sites. It was easy to implement. **What do you dislike about Visualping?** I haven't come across any limitations yet or anything that I dislike about it. **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Visualping for a few different purposes. One is to keep tabs on what our competitors are doing and monitor their content changes to key pages. We also use it to track content changes for information that we need to keep updated on. Having the daily digest of these changes helps us intentionally keep tabs on what's going on. ### 24. Visualping helps me stay updated on competitor websites effortlessly **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 04, 2023 **What do you like best about Visualping?** I stumbled upon Visualping thanks to a recommendation from a friend in the industry, and it has truly transformed the way we gather data and insights. Visualping takes website monitoring to a new level. Its ability to track visual changes on web pages is a game-changer in market research, allowing us to stay ahead of our competitors. Setting up Visualping is a breeze. Just enter your competitor's URL, configure a few settings, and you're good to go. It's incredibly user-friendly, even for those with limited technical expertise. **What do you dislike about Visualping?** It would be fantastic if Visualping could expand its capabilities to send email alerts for general market research updates. For instance, notifying users when a new podcast or article is published that features their competitor. Visualping could improve user experience by suggesting initial settings based on the user's industry or monitoring goals. This would streamline the setup process and help users optimize their monitoring tasks more effectively. **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** Efficient Website Monitoring: Visualping eliminates the need for manual website checking by automating the process. This saves me a significant amount of time and ensures I never miss critical updates or changes on websites I monitor. Competitive Intelligence: It helps me keep a close eye on my competitors' websites, ensuring I'm aware of any price changes, product launches, or content updates. This competitive intelligence allows me to make informed decisions and stay ahead in the market. Content Tracking: Visualping assists in tracking content updates on websites, such as news articles or blog posts. This is particularly beneficial for staying informed about industry trends and developments. ### 25. Helpful tool to monitor updates from Government **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jainam S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2023 **What do you like best about Visualping?** i like the summary of changes in email that makes me decide whether the change was important for me or not **What do you dislike about Visualping?** i dont want to know about every small update. Some mails are unecessary and hence i do not open every email from Visual ping. They should send emails only for changes that they can understand are relevant for the user **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** Often times RBI releases new notifications and i need to be updated about it. Hence whenever there is new notification from the government body, I have setup visual ping to notify me on the same ### 26. Track changes on competitors website **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 18, 2023 **What do you like best about Visualping?** In this highly dynamic digital landscape, the ability to track and analyze changes on competitor websites is a game-changer. Leveraging this capability can significantly enhance your marketing strategy, with a particular focus on product pricing and promotional tactics. One of the primary utilities of competitor website tracking is the ability to keep a vigilant eye on price fluctuations. Prices are a pivotal factor influencing customer decisions, and thus, any changes made by competitors can have a direct impact on your pricing strategy. By constantly monitoring these price changes, you not only stay informed but can also leverage this information to adapt your pricing strategy in real-time. This adaptability is crucial for maintaining competitiveness and ensuring you don't inadvertently lose customers due to unfavorable pricing differentials. The beauty of this tracking system lies in its seamless process. When a change occurs on a competitor's website, whether it's a tweak in product prices or a new promotional offer, you receive an email notification. This real-time alerting system ensures that you're never caught off guard. With timely information, you can swiftly and strategically respond to these changes. In addition to tracking price changes, monitoring competitor promotions is equally vital. The nature and timing of promotions, such as discounts, bundling, or special offers, often significantly influence customer behavior. Keeping tabs on your competitors' promotional strategies allows you to fine-tune your own promotions to maintain a competitive edge. For example, if a competitor launches a limited-time offer, you can consider crafting a counter-promotion or aligning your messaging to highlight your unique value proposition. **What do you dislike about Visualping?** Sometimes tracking breaks, but almost all resulted from more significant changes on competitor sites that need to re-adjust tracking of different regions. **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a marketing consultant, the practice of tracking prices on multiple competitor websites and monitoring their promotions is a powerful approach to inform and refine your marketing strategies. This data-driven method not only allows you to maintain a competitive edge but also positions you to make well-informed decisions that can significantly impact your conversion rates and overall marketing success. ### 27. A service that I didn't know it existed - but immediately knew I needed **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 17, 2023 **What do you like best about Visualping?** You can use Visualping to monitor your own presence on the web. But what matters much more to me is to monitor what my potential customers see when they go to my competitors' websites and to be notified immediately when those websites change. The implementation of your own surveillance service could not be easier. You can get started in as few as 3 minutes and then add more and more as you understand better, what matters most for gathering intelligence on the competitors of your business. I would recommend to check the reports daily so as to be able to respond as quickly as possible if something changes. I also like the overall demeanor of the company, particularly their customer service, which is both helpful and quick. **What do you dislike about Visualping?** I would recommend to thoroughly validate that Visualping works for your needs before committing to a subscription by using their generous free tier. **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** When was the last time you checked your competitors' website? If it has been awhile, you are in the same boat as I am. That's why I use Visualping. It keeps me abreat of any changes without me having to do anything. ### 28. Best-in-class tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2023 **What do you like best about Visualping?** I've been using Visualping for years for a variety of use cases. I've tried a few other alternatives (including standing up my own service in AWS), but none come close to the ease-of-use and rich feature set of Visualping. Their latest features (toggling between visual and text comparison, alerting on specific keywords, among others) only further Visualping's position as the clear market leader. **What do you dislike about Visualping?** Every once in a while, I get a false positive alert because a page failed to load or showed a network error. I wish Visualping were able to automatically detect these and re-run the test rather than immediately notifying me about a change to the page. **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tracking updates to a variety of pages I care about -- ranging from competitors' pricing and marketing materials, to even personal use cases. ### 29. Visualping has been really effective at catching even the smallest website changes **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 02, 2023 **What do you like best about Visualping?** I like that I can get email updates on tiny website changes rather than having to manually check. This helps a lot in my duties as a reporter. **What do you dislike about Visualping?** For the free version it's a little bit difficult to fine-tune to my exact needs. Meaning, it's hard to tell what would be a 1% change versus a 10% change for example. It also takes some time to screenshot each page for review. **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** Visualping is saving me time from manually checking company websites for updates or policy changes. Those changes can be helpful to know in my role as a journalist who tracks company changes. ### 30. Perfect for professional and personal monitoring **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2024 **What do you like best about Visualping?** Great options for customization depending on the page being monitored. **What do you dislike about Visualping?** Tuning of monitoring needs to be accurate for the tool to be truly useful. **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** Removes need to be constantly manually checking on status of certain pages **Official Response from Eric Do Couto:** > Thanks for the review! - The Visualping Team ### 31. A game-changer for staying ahead of the curve! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hannah S. | Marketing Strategist, Information Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 26, 2023 **What do you like best about Visualping?** Visualping has been an invaluable tool in my work. I like to keep track of updates and changes on our competitor's web pages, and Visualping has transformed my process, eliminating time-consuming manual checks. Visualping keeps me updated on industry trends effortlessly and is so easy to use! **What do you dislike about Visualping?** While I appreciate VisualPing's value in my workflow, perhaps in the future we could have more access to resources/guides on how to get the most out of your Visualping account and optimze all features. **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** Visualping saves me a significant amount of time by monitoring websites for updates and changes so I don't have to do it manually. Visualping enhances my decision-making capabilities and frees up time that I can allocate to more strategic tasks. ### 32. The best site to use for getting superfast updates **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2023 **What do you like best about Visualping?** VisualPing has changed the way I monitor the Internet. I've used it for several different projects, and it's great for monitoring the smallest change websites. My favorite time was when I had a monitoring job for months, and as soon as there was a change on the website I was watching, I got a text alert and was able to schedule a very difficult to get government appointment that potentially saved YEARS of waiting. Years. You can change the frequency of alerts, the type of alerts you get, integrate apps, get really technical with your settings, all for a extremely reasonable price. Highly recommend! **What do you dislike about Visualping?** Higher plan needed for SMS alerts. Used to be available on lower plan. **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's helping me have up to date information faster than I can monitor. ### 33. Visualping is overall just a great service **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sam L. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 22, 2023 **What do you like best about Visualping?** Compared to other monitoring services, Visualping offers an easy to use and simple service to track and monitor changes in websites. I therefore use it quite frequently for all sorts of tasks. **What do you dislike about Visualping?** I'm certainly not a professional user who uses every single feature that's available, but for everyday use it's perfect, so I don't have any critical points to raise. **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** Visualping provides a very easy way to track changes in websites and helps me to notify me via email when someone has a new blog article or offers a new product. ### 34. Visualizing is so smart and well designed **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Olivier V. | Board Of Advisors, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2023 **What do you like best about Visualping?** Visualping is such an obvious app - useful in so many situations. And really easy to setup and use! At all timne, I have at least one or 2 searches going. **What do you dislike about Visualping?** No criticism really. The app was quick to learn. The service itself is not trivial so it's not easy to make it easy to understand right away. **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** We need very fast reaction to competitors and to pricing in particular. Visualping is provinding us with the base information, on a regular and timely fashion. We could not get this intel otherwise. ### 35. Tracking website changes, made easy **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jay C. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2023 **What do you like best about Visualping?** Their free tier is just what I needed to let me know when there's an update to a register on a government website. It can track both textual and visual changes and is very easy to set up. I've been using it for several months now and it's great. **What do you dislike about Visualping?** I haven't found any downside at this stage. **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** There is no option to recevie a notification of any changes from the website that I am monitoring, so Visualping saves plenty of wasted hours checking for changes, then identifying what has been changed. ### 36. Visualping helps our team stay up to date with the latest updates just by checking our email **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ali C. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 18, 2023 **What do you like best about Visualping?** The Visualping dashboard is super easy to use for setting up which sites you want to check. Being able to schedule the frequency of email updates with a very wide variety of times is also great. **What do you dislike about Visualping?** It's difficult to see exactly what the changes on a page are with the "Text Changes" function. There will be a red highlight and crossed out text interspersed with the green highlighted new text sometimes blocked by blank images and it's hard to read. **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** In the automotive data industry, we need to be constantly monitoring dozens of different manufacturers for updates on the latest model year. Visualping lets us stay up to date with all those different sites without have to constantly be checking them ourselves. ### 37. Saves me time! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John O. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2023 **What do you like best about Visualping?** What I like about Visualping is that I don't have to waste time constantly checking web sites to see if a change has been made. I just wait for their email to notify me of it and then check out the web site. So easy. **What do you dislike about Visualping?** I have been using Visualping for awhile. So far, I don't see any downsides. **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is helping me keep an eye on my competitors without having to go to their web site daily or weekly. Like I said before, this saves me time and time is money. ### 38. Super useful tool for tracking external changes **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shawn P. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 15, 2023 **What do you like best about Visualping?** Visualping is a useful website for tracking changes to external websites that I use in my day to day job. I have used Visualping in multiple positions to track updates. Currently I use it to track changes to and external pdf o be able to track when the group releases a new version without having to check the website everyday. **What do you dislike about Visualping?** False positives used to be an issue with Visualping but I feel like their AI and sensitivity settings has improved over the years and I do not receive those false positives anymore. **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** Visualping is making my job easier to track important changes that might not be communicated by the external website/group. I can then update our work and process to match those changes. ### 39. Incredibly simple tool to monitor changes in webpages **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2023 **What do you like best about Visualping?** It is very simple to set up and offers a variety of options including visual pixel-by-pixel comparison, text, and the ability to specify elements / % change thresholds to limit false positives. **What do you dislike about Visualping?** The only thing I would improve is that currently, if you are monitoring a specific element for changes (like a published date text box), there is no way to have the email notification highlight ALL differences on the page (like the text changes in other elements). **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** There is no RSS subscription option for certain vendor support pages, but our organization can be heavily impacted by changes on these pages if we don't notice them in time. Visualping ensures we always know when these pages are updated and highlights exactly what's changed on the page, which is critical if the pages do not have a changelog. ### 40. Great way to monitor websites for changes **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kirk J. | President, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 26, 2023 **What do you like best about Visualping?** The setup is easy and intuitive. I was up and running monitoring 3 websites for changes within 10 minutes. I get notifications each day that the websites change, which allows me to be early in event registration when timing matters. **What do you dislike about Visualping?** There's really nothing I don't like about the Visualping service. It works as promised. **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** We attend conferences to promote our product lines. In some cases, the event sponsors only promote the event on their website - no emails or other communication. Also, booth selection is better if you can register early in the process. By using Visualping, I get email notifications when the conference event pages are updated, so I never miss an opportunity to register early. **Official Response from Eric Do Couto:** > Thanks for your review, Kirk! We appreciate the stellar review and we're glad Visualping is helpful as part of your conference promotions process. - The Visualping Team ### 41. Adds a new layer of function to websites **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Philip L. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 15, 2023 **What do you like best about Visualping?** Visualping notifies me directly when a particular government webpage is updated, saving me the tedium of daily checks. It literally turns a useless outdated page into a useful source of information. It is easy to set up and has worked very well. **What do you dislike about Visualping?** For my use case, I have found no downsides. Occasionally I will get a notification for something very minor, like changing the date in the footer, but i am glad the bot is paying closer attention than I would! **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am a local activist who relies on information from a government agency web page. Since it's the government, they are not interested in timely communication or the latest technology. Visualping turns this website into a useful source of knowledge. ### 42. A great alternative to a web-scraper bot for the non-techie **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 02, 2023 **What do you like best about Visualping?** It tracks changes in websites that are not otherwise trackable by RSS. I wanted to keep tabs on a number of company employment pages -- I couldn't create RSS feeds out of many of them, even using paid tools. **What do you dislike about Visualping?** I wish I could turn text changes into an RSS style feed or send a summary email. Sometimes the change indicators are confusing -- especially for visual. Needs indicators of what red and green mean to know what is new and what was removed. I also want to run all of my checks at the same time each week. It would be nice to be able to preset a time. The workflow to do this is a bit cumbersome and must be repeated for each search. **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me keep track of employment portals for different companies. I tried RSS, and then RSS generators, and couldn't figure out web scraping. This tool was a great find for me and has sped up my workflow. ### 43. Awesome for passively monitoring competition **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bruce T. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2023 **What do you like best about Visualping?** I used to obsess about my comptition and would be checking their websites every few days. It was like a monkey on my shoulder, and took up too much brain space. But now I just made a job on VisualPing and don't think about it anymore. They just email me when something changes on their websites. **What do you dislike about Visualping?** I wish I could scan more pages on each domain without having to make a bunch of separate jobs. **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** I get to delegate competition monitoring to a piece of software, rather than spending time and brain power doing it myself. ### 44. A useful tool that does what it says **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Sports | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 26, 2023 **What do you like best about Visualping?** Visualping excels at what it's designed for – monitoring website changes. The setup process is straightforward, and the tool allows you to track specific parts of a webpage, not just the entire page. This granularity is a real plus when you're interested in monitoring a particular section for updates. **What do you dislike about Visualping?** Visualping offers a free plan, but it's quite limited in terms of the number of pages you can monitor and the frequency of checks. This might not be a major issue for occasional users, but if you need more robust monitoring, you'll have to upgrade to a paid plan, which can be a bit pricey for personal use. **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** Visualping is a website that primarily solves the problem of monitoring and tracking changes to web pages. It offers a service that allows users to set up alerts for specific web pages, and it notifies them when there are changes to those pages. ### 45. Lets me know when pages are updated **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brant G. | Full Stack Developer III, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 26, 2023 **What do you like best about Visualping?** There are some Web pages I monitor that don't use RSS/Atom or don't use them correctly so I'm not alerted to new or changed content. Visualping fills that gap. I've only ever used it for free, so I'm limited in how many sites and checks I can do so I am more strategic and less timely than I might otherwise be. **What do you dislike about Visualping?** I'd like more timely updates on the pages I monitor, but it's not possible in the free bucket without exhausting the free checks. (This review is a result of incentivized solicitation by Visualping though its content is not influenced by them) **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** I want to know when certain pages update their content. ### 46. Good experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anna N. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2023 **What do you like best about Visualping?** WE at ICA use visualping to monitor the Italian consulate's website, to keep up to date their instructions for some procedures. **What do you dislike about Visualping?** Sometimes I receive too many emails regarding changes I am not interested with (such as social media features). But I understand that every change needs to be notified. **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** Consulate's requirements for certain actions (e.g. citizenship recognition, passport and visa issuing) change very fast. In order to keep track of when a requirement is updated, visualping helps us to keep track of those changes. ### 47. No-nonsense tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alex H. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 04, 2023 **What do you like best about Visualping?** Visualping helps me to see when tour dates open up for an exclusive event. The tour company only allows sign-ups via their website, and only announces when sign-ups will open via their website. Visualping helps me to know when I need to be ready to register, and was easy to set up with a "click here then watch this" interface. **What do you dislike about Visualping?** I wish more people knew about it! I have told several friends about it, and they agree it is a useful tool when trying to work with small companies. **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helping me to see when I can sign up for events when only a website posting is available. ### 48. Great to be alerted for GDPR and California Privacy Rights Act **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eric M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2023 **What do you like best about Visualping?** I work for an ad tech startup and use Visualping to keep track of changes in GDPR and California Privacy Rights Act. Visualping is easy to use and the alerts (specially text compare) makes it clear what exactly has changed. **What do you dislike about Visualping?** We are a small startup and can't afford the Business Tier which gives access to the AI features. You will have to fork $100/mo for this. **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** GDPR and California Privacy Rights Act changes in regulations. I also use to monitor competitors and ocassional trade news. ### 49. Easy and simple tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matteo N. | Quality and Regulatory manager, IT manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2023 **What do you like best about Visualping?** I get on well because it is a simple tool with many functions. I find it simple and functional **What do you dislike about Visualping?** Sometimes changes to pages are reported, but they are false reports only because the layout or some details of the page formatting change and not the content. **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** There are many sites of ministries or official organisations at international level that carry regulatory information, such as guidelines or regulatory references, whose information is not always notified by e-mail or newsletter, so monitoring the web page is very useful ### 50. A very helpful tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Religious Institutions | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2023 **What do you like best about Visualping?** I find it very helpful to be able to track when a page is updated, as it saves me from periodically checking if it has been. I am unaware of any other product that does something similar, and you have made it so easy to use. Thank you. **What do you dislike about Visualping?** I have not found anything to dislike about the product, and I appreciate that you offer a free tier so that for those of us that have only a handful of pages to keep track of, we can still use it. **What problems is Visualping solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it to keep track of a page that lists different theses in my old Academic Department. It helps to notify me when a new thesis is uploaded and I am able to then go and see what the latest research is. 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