I was using visual ping to look at a competitor’s pricing page and one government portal where a filing will appear anytime they want to post it. The key to making it work well is you are able to draw a box around that small table, so it only sends me a notification when those numbers change and not each time they switch a banner, so i get an e-mail with the before and after pictures next to each other along with one-line description of what has changed, so i can quickly tell if i need to pay attention and i’m no longer having to open that portal at 7am on monday to see if they’ve posted anything, it simply lets me know. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It notifies me of some stuff i don’t care about. Cookie notices, a rotating testimonial section and one week it notified me about a timestamp in the footer; i shrunk the area and that resolved most of the problem but i had to figure that out myself. The "important" flag only works right about 70% of the time. There isn’t a permanent method to notify them that i know about that one and please stop telling me. They’re notifying me of changes but i’m unable to notify them that i have seen that change and move on; i just have to keep scrolling past them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Thanks for the detailed review, Ivan. The before-and-after screenshots with a one-line summary are exactly what we want those Monday morning portal checks to look like, and drawing a box around one table is the right move for pricing and filings.
On the noise: cookie banners, rotating testimonials, and footer timestamps are classic false positives. Shrinking the selection usually fixes them, and if you want a second set of eyes on a noisy page, contact support with the URL and they'll help tighten the area or switch to text/keyword mode where it fits better.
We've noted your points on the "important" flag accuracy and on marking a change as seen so it drops out of the list. Both are useful product feedback.
- The Visualping Team