When comparing UpdatePatrol 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 UpdatePatrol is ranked 18th. 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 Has a free trial
Pro Highly customizable checking frequency
Pro Intuitive interface
GUI for selecting sections of a page to monitor is clear and easy to use.
Pro Features
Cons
Con No way to filter results using CSS selectors
Con Discontinued
While still available for purchase, the software comes with no support.
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.