Website Screenshot

How the screenshot is taken

A real browser running on our server opens the page, with none of your cookies and no signed-in accounts. What lands on the screenshot is what a new visitor sees. Scripts run, and the page is scrolled to the bottom before the shot is taken, so images get a chance to load.

On a very long page only the top is captured, up to the height limit. The screenshot is kept for an hour, then deleted. Sites with robot protection sometimes show a verification challenge instead of the page, and that is what ends up on the screenshot.

Desktop or phone

The desktop view is captured in a window 1366 pixels wide. The phone view matches an iPhone 13: the page is 390 pixels wide and rendered at double scale, so the image comes out 780 pixels wide. The site receives the phone's browser string and shows its mobile layout, if it has one.

The "hide cookie banners" checkbox hides consent windows from known systems, along with fixed blocks containing the word cookie. Other popups, such as subscription prompts or sign-in offers, stay in the picture: the script leaves them alone so it does not hide part of the page itself.