Features Comparison:
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Uses Real Browsers yes Varies Varies no no
Full Ajax Support yes Varies Varies no no
Flash/Video Support yes Varies Varies no no
Detects Ad Vendor Issues yes yes no no
Detects "Widget" Failures yes yes no no
Email Alerting yes yes yes yes
Screenshots of Errors yes Varies Extra no no
Full Data Retention 3 Months Varies Extra no Varies Varies
Free Service Option yes no yes yes
Starting Price $49/month $300+/month $10/month Open source

Why Real Browsers Are Better Than Simple Pinging

BrowserMob's monitoring service uses real web browsers to simulate a user interacting with your website, despite being similarly priced to simplistic "ping" style monitoring services that only check individual URLs.

The use of real browsers allows you to check that individual objects are responding, but also to functionally verify that your website is working from end-to-end. This includes ensuring that 3rd party components such as advertisements, gadgets, analytics, and Content Delivery Networks don't adversely affect your website.

BrowserMob's Advanced Scripting with Selenium

As part of BrowserMob's advanced real browser support, you have access to a rich API based on top of the popular open source browser automation framework Selenium. If you already have Selenium tests written, you can easily import them in and use them for monitoring.

For more advanced behavior, you can leverage our JavaScript-based programming language to interact with Flash, randomize interactions, or read data from a CSV file. No other monitoring service provides such a rich and advanced API.