Thursday

Browsershots - See shots of your website in multiple OS and Browsers

The ultimate test after you created your website, is to test it out using multiple browsers. Why? It might look great in Firefox but maybe not in Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari or Konquerer? Not your entire audience is going to use one browser.

Browsershots

Browsershots allows you to type in your website and choose from a variety of operating systems and browsers.

Once you submit your request, you’ll be shown a page where you will have to wait for your request to complete. Meanwhile, you may refresh the page and see the progress. You’ll be seeing the browser shots as they finish. A problem I see though, is that sometimes the browser takes a snapshot before a page might finish loading. That might tell you, your site isn’t loading fast enough!

So what do you do if your site doesn’t look as it was supposed to? Work on it some more until it is compatible with the most browsers possible. That way you don’t lose any visitors in the future!

Several Talk Binary Browser shots

Below are several Talk Binary browser shots. As you can see, it appears the page hadn’t completely loaded before the shot was taken. Either way, its what I expected!

Stats concerning OS and Browsers of Talk Binary visitors

I recently started using Google Analytics so these stats have accumulated about a month’s worth of visitors. I was surprised to see what Operating Systems and Browsers people used to browse my page.

As you can see, Andy probably looks at Talk Binary on his iPhone using Safari, and you probably see my one time I used my Playstation 3 to view my site as well. Either way, it says it was viewed with a PS3 multiple times. Now that wasn’t me! This is why you must make sure your website is viewable on all browsers because your audience probably uses more than one option!