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Today we’re pleased to introduce a new technology to Sitebeam which will ultimately affect everything we do: real browsing.
Until now, we’ve downloaded pages like a traditional ‘bot’, which means all Sitebeam can do is see your code. The problem with this is there’s now a lot of clever things that code can do – like AJAX – which are too complex to simulate. We used clever ways of ‘guessing’ these exceptions, but they were always potentially imperfect.
When we asked SiteBeam customers what they thought about us at the end of last year, we noticed that many people weren’t aware of certain features or functionality.
We can hardly blame you, since we’ve been improving SiteBeam like crazy this year, and the tool is now more comprehensive than ever. But we thought you’d want to know about these things in particular: Read more
The new EU law on cookies specifies that websites ask consent before they set a cookie on a user’s machine. The ICO guidelines state that you can still set a cookie if it’s absolutely essential, and give an example of a user on an shopping website clicking to add a product to the basket. Apparently this is fine, but they warn against using the more ‘intrusive’ cookies. Read more
SiteBeam is our flagship, professional tool for testing websites. We’re aware though that “testing” is a very loose term. Everyone will want to test a website for different purposes, and everyone will be looking for different information.
So in SiteBeam we allow you to choose from a variety of different reports. Each of these will focus on a different aspect of the website, allowing you to get straight to the detail you need without any irrelevant stuff. Here’s some more detail about each report: Read more
