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 general services and the second, our PRO features.
| Features / Benefits Comparison - STW FREE PAGEPIX SERVICES | STW |
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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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| Freemium Model (offers a 100% free option)†† | |
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| High Quality, clear images at all sizes (95% default 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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| Supports HTTPS image delivery (for secure/logged in pages) | |
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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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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 5Gb†† requests per month |
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| Monthly "New Request" limits (reverse calculated from daily limits in some cases) |
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Price per month
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FREE
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Trial*
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*Trial means that they provide a limited number (daily/monthly) of a single deafult (small) size of thumbnails for free
†Most services require a link back to their site from pages on your site in order to use their service
††Most users (95%) will never need more than 5Gb per month. Our free limits are 10 times higher than competitors
STW PRO Feature Documentation (See How Simple To Use!)
| Features / Benefits Comparison - STW PRO PAGEPIX SERVICES | STW |
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Unique Feature-set comparison
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| [PRO] Capture Inside Page thumbnails |
$9.95/mo
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| [PRO] Supports Custom-Sized thumbnail requests |
$9.95/mo
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| [PRO] Supports Full-Length web page thumbnails (custom-sized!) | $9.95/mo |
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| [PRO] Allows Refresh On-demand (queue instantly) (captured asap) |
$9.95/mo
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| [PRO] Custom Flash Delay option - for timed captures |
$9.95/mo
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| [PRO] Custom "System Messages" thumbnails using simple method |
$9.95/mo
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| [PRO] Custom Browser Resolution |
$9.95/mo
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| [PRO] 'Widescreen' Screenshots (Custom Native + Custom Sized) |
$19.90/mo
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| 100% Money Back Guarantee! (We are THAT confident you'll love us!) |
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Price per month
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$34.95/mo*
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Corporate and Power Users Pricing comparison (as of 08.08.2008)
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| Additional 1Gb bandwidth per month (approx 50,000 impressions) | $4.95 |
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| Dedicated, pre-cached, custom-size thumbnails (instantly available) | CALL |
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| CUSTOM Integration services available | $75/hour |
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| 100% Private Labeled Website Thumbnail Solution / "High Volume Fee" ‡ | CALL |
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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!!
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, pageglimpse, and many more smaller ones.
The thing to keep in mind is reliability, support, and unique features. ShrinkTheWeb excels in all facets.
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