Insights & Updates
Tips, guides, and news about website monitoring and visual change detection.
E-commerce price monitoring with screenshots: what we actually found
We set up screenshot-based price monitoring on Amazon across several product categories. Instead of clean price data, we got error pages, layout shifts, and a visual diff that catches things text scrapers miss entirely. Here's the full breakdown with real data.
When layout shifts break your price monitoring: a real Amazon tracking story
We set up price monitoring on an Amazon product page and immediately started getting 22% diff alerts — not because the price changed, but because a promotional banner kept appearing and disappearing in the navigation, shifting the entire layout down by a few dozen pixels. Here's how we figured out what was happening and what we'd recommend doing about it.
We Caught a 32% SaaS Price Drop Live
On April 27th, proxy-cheap dropped their Static Residential Proxy price from $3.39 to $2.29 with zero announcement. We caught it the same morning.