When comparing Pagescreen vs Visualping, the Slant community recommends Visualping for most people. In the question“What are the best webpage change detection and notification software tools?” Visualping is ranked 8th while Pagescreen is ranked 17th. The most important reason people chose Visualping is:
GUI for selecting sections of a page to monitor is clear and easy to use.
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Pros
Pro Team management
Pro Customer support
Pro User interface
Pro Intuitive interface
GUI for selecting sections of a page to monitor is clear and easy to use.
Pro Features
Cons
Con False positive
We receive from time to time false positive notifications, but the team at Pagescreen as always been prompt to help and providing a solution.
Con Potentially expensive
The "free" version of Visualping offers a specific number of "checks" and it might be ok if you check once a day but their "recomendation" or guide of typical use will exhaust the free checks very quickly.
Con Too many false alarms
Con Potential bandwidth issues
VP checks for changes in graphics as well as text, and to do so has to frequently download the entire content of a monitored page. If the hosting account has bandwidth limits they can be exceeded very easily if a number of graphics heavy pages are monitored by a number of users.