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Test your LPs on any handset, OS, or browser EASILY (11)

02-19-2013 02:11 PM #1 caurmen (Administrator)
Test your LPs on any handset, OS, or browser EASILY

Testing your LPs on every browser they're likely to be displayed on is vital, but it's also a total pain in the ass, right?

Well, I've just come across a great tool to help with that.

It's called BrowserStack. When you sign up, it basically gives you access to a massive array of different VMs running every OS, browser, and handset emulator you can imagine. I counted 20+ different phones and tablets running Android alone, plus every version of Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and IE, OSX, Windows, Linux, iOS, and more.

Here's a screenshot of the tool in action:



What's particularly cool is that you're not just looking at a screenshot of your site - it's a full VM, so you can interact with your LP, click through your links, play with your Javascript and so on.

It's fairly reasonably priced, and you get a half-hour trial for free.

Let me know how useful you find it! When I start on my mobile testing I'll probably be signing up for the paid version, and I shall report back...

02-19-2013 02:40 PM #2 miket (Member)

BrowserStack is pretty awesome.

I'd also suggest using Mobilizer (http://www.springbox.com/mobilizer/) if you can't afford the paid solution. It doesn't have quite as many devices and browsers, but it does let you get an idea of what your site will look like on a variety of popular phones.

02-19-2013 03:41 PM #3 andyscraven (Member)

Wow! It just showed me that one of my landers was not working with IE on Windows properly!

Will someone please take IE outside and shoot it!!! Bloody awful browser!

02-19-2013 04:27 PM #4 h0mp (Member)

Testing several android versions is cool.

02-19-2013 07:39 PM #5 zeno (Administrator)

Have been using it for testing my landers, it's great. I just wish I had fiber net sooner because it's pretty laggy/slow for me, damn NZ problems.

02-20-2013 10:54 AM #6 caurmen (Administrator)

If you want something that's more fire-and-forget (or, as Andy has pointed out, "Fire, Forget, Review, Swear, Send Hate Mail To IE Developers"), Browser Shots is also good - although it takes a while, it doesn't do mobile, and has a really dumb list of default browsers to test against.

02-20-2013 11:14 AM #7 matthewk (Member)

Is there anything that you post on this forum that just isn't pure awesome.

Thanks dude

02-20-2013 11:33 AM #8 redrummr (Member)

BrowserStack is the best by far. A landing page I wanted to use did not render properly in IE at all, it was all over the place. Each browser on browserstack has Firebug built in so you can make changes to CSS in real time and watch the output. Sometimes IE (even newer versions) are so hard to code for that you need to use browser-specific CSS styles to make it work without spending hours finding a uniform clean code for all browsers.

Good work on getting the word out caurmen!

02-20-2013 01:19 PM #9 admobix ()

we use perfectomobile (or deviceanywhere) for testing app installs. Seems like it would pale in comparison to browser stack or springbox for testing LPs, but the true value is if you want to test an app install.

02-22-2013 08:11 PM #10 digitala (Member)

Neat program, seems to work great!

03-07-2013 03:56 AM #11 thedudeabides (Moderator)

Quote Originally Posted by miket View Post
BrowserStack is pretty awesome.

I'd also suggest using Mobilizer (http://www.springbox.com/mobilizer/) if you can't afford the paid solution. It doesn't have quite as many devices and browsers, but it does let you get an idea of what your site will look like on a variety of popular phones.
The thing about mobilizer is I'm pretty sure it's just a skinned browser resize.

If you want a standalone tool I'd highly recommend the Opera mobile emulator instead.

I even boot up the Android SDK every once and a while to double check sometimes.

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