When comparing Website Watcher vs Visualping, the Slant community recommends Website Watcher for most people. In the question“What are the best webpage change detection and notification software tools?” Website Watcher is ranked 6th while Visualping is ranked 8th.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Can track Atom and RSS feeds
Pro Can track whole sites without specifying each page manually
Pro Highly customizable checking frequency
Pro Can track password protected pages
Pro Can be set to ignore HTML tags, images, numbers and dates
Pro Can track an unlimited number of pages
Pro Has a 30-day trial
Pro Intuitive interface
GUI for selecting sections of a page to monitor is clear and easy to use.
Pro Features
Cons
Con Unintuitive UI
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.