This page is designed to compare some of the various website thumbnail providers (free or paid). Website previews are a great way to enhance the interactive feel and aestetics of your own website. Having a website thumbnail makes user's feel more comfortable and improves site "stickiness." Our website screenshots are called "PagePix."
There are two charts below. The first details our FREE services and the second, our PRO services.
| Features / Benefits Comparison - STW FREE PAGEPIX SERVICES |  |
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Basic Feature-set comparison
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| Real-Time responses for thumbnails already pre-fetched |  |
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| Support several, free, popular default sizes (view examples) of website previews | |
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| No advertisements or watermarks on thumbnails | |
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| Fully Supports Flash Embed and HTML! (i.e. <img src=""></img>) | |
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| Captures any domain (i.e. no DMOZ restrictions or pre-approval) | |
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| Really FREE! - (i.e. 250,000 monthly requests!)†† | |
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| High Quality, clear images at all sizes (90%+ quality) | |
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Unique Feature-set comparison |
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| Supports subdomain thumbnails! (i.e. funplace.yoursite.com) | |
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| Accessible via an open API (website thumbnail code supplied) | |
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| Fully Supports Native Javascript Embed! (i.e. <script ...></script>) | |
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| Allows permanent caching of requested thumbnails! | |
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| Custom "Site Queued" and "Problem Detected" thumbnail allowed (API) | $$ |
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| Captures thumbnails at an industry high resolution of 1024x768 | |
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| Supports HTTPS image delivery (for secure/logged in pages) | |
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Reliability comparison |
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| Can easily handle billions of site thumbnail requests per month | |
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| Friendly, quick, and knowledgeable support (most important!)) | |
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| Very Reliable (99.5% Uptime! - view Imagion stats) | |
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Terms of Use comparison |
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| "Credit / Attribution Link" requested but optional† | |
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| Flexible Terms of Service: Allowed on commercial pages, etc | |
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| Initial "free service" usage up to 250,000†† requests per month | +$70 |
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FREE |
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| Monthly "new request" limits (reverse calculated from daily limits in some cases) | 3,000 |
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5,000*** |
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Price per month |
Trial** |
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FREE |
*CPM means that this provider charges some variable amount per 1,000 displays
**Trial means that they provide a limited number (daily/monthly) of a single deafult (small) size of thumbnails for free
***Upgrade to ANY of the PRO features will raise this limit to 25,000 monthly new requests (or about 800 per day)
†Most services require a link back to their site from every page on your site showing thumbnails in order to use their service
††Most users (99%) will never need more than 250,000 thumbnails per month. Our free limits are more than 10 times higher than competitors
STW PRO Feature Documentation (See How Simple To Use!)
| Features / Benefits Comparison - STW PRO PAGEPIX SERVICES | |
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Unique Feature-set comparison |
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| [PRO] Capture Specific Page thumbnails (inside pages) | |
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$9.95/mo |
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| [PRO] Supports Custom-Sized thumbnail requests | |
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$9.95/mo |
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| [PRO] Supports Full-Length web page thumbnails (custom-sized!) | |
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$9.95/mo |
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| [PRO] Allows Refresh On-demand (queue instantly) (captured asap) | |
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$9.95/mo |
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| [PRO] Custom Flash Delay option - for timed captures | $$ |
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| [PRO] Custom "System Messages" thumbnails using simple method | |
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$9.95/mo |
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| [PRO] Custom Browser Resolution (Custom Native Resolution) [ BETA ] | $$ |
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$9.95/mo |
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| [PRO] 'Widescreen' Screenshots (Custom Native + Custom Sized) [ BETA ] | |
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$19.90/mo |
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| [PRO] Adult Content Filter - Questionable sites marked for filtering | |
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FREE |
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| [PRO] Website TITLE & META Description returned in advanced API feed | |
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FREE |
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| 100% Money Back Guarantee! (We are THAT confident you'll love us!) | |
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Price per month |
$34.95/mo* |
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Corporate and Power Users Pricing comparison (as of 08.08.2008) |
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| Additional 250,000 block of requests per month (i.e. < 500,000/mo) | +$70 |
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$24.95** |
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Have a very high traffic website or a large screenshot project?
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Use our Screenshot Pricing Calculator
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| Dedicated, pre-cached, custom-size thumbnails (instantly available) | |
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| CUSTOM Integration services available | |
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| 100% Private Labeled Website Thumbnail Solution / "High Volume Fee" ‡ | |
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*LIMITED TIME OFFER: Get ALL PRO features at a significantly discounted rate of only $34.95 per month on unlimited domains!!
**High-usage accounts are priced separately to allow average users to get PRO features without paying for bandwidth
‡High Volume Fee applies to "new requests" that do not exist in our database. If your monthly requests exceed 25,000 new requests, you will need to order dedicated generators to avoid causing long queue times for other users
There are a lot of fly-by-night thumbnail providers that pop up and then disappear just as quickly. This comparison charts tracks some of the providers that are losing ground and that have been around for more than a couple of weeks. A quick list of those would include: thumbshots.org (thumbshots), Alexa thumbnails (now deprecated), MSN girafa, websnapr, webshotspro, webshots, thumbnailspro, thumbalizr, thmbnl, snapcasa, snapshots, mywebshot, and many more smaller ones.
The thing to keep in mind is reliability, support, and unique features. ShrinkTheWeb excels in all facets.
