Gomez's free Cross-Browser Compatibility Test shows screen captures of a webpage in each browser/OS combination - no problems here.
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Web application experience management provider Gomez (www.gomez.com) has launched a free web-based tool that automatically tests how websites look in four commonly-used combinations of browsers and operating systems, saving web developers both time and money.
The free Gomez Cross-Browser Compatibility Test (instanttest.gomez.com) lets users simply enter a website, and return screen captures of the webpage in each browser/OS combination, revealing content-rendering issues such as missing graphics, function buttons or text.
New, popular browsers like Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer 8 and Google Chrome, according to Gomez, use more client-side processing and have different ways of handling dynamic content such as JavaScript, increasing the risk of performance issues for webpages and transactions.
“Web pages can look and perform differently from one browser to another,” said Eric Schurr, Gomez’s SVP of Marketing. “In today’s economy, businesses can’t afford to risk losing even one customer or one dollar of revenue because their web applications don’t work properly on a browser or mobile device. Gomez’s Cross-Browser Compatibility Test reduces this risk while also saving time and money.”
Testing web application compatibility between browser type, version and OS has been traditionally time-consuming and expensive. Gomez’s Cross-Browser Compatibility Test, however, provides a simple way to identify content-rendering issues on any webpage. It is, however, limited to four frequently-used browser/OS combinations: Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP, IE 7.0 on XP, Safari 3.2.1 on Macintosh OSX 10.5, and Safari 2.0 on Macintosh OSX 10.4.
Gomez’s full cross-browser testing solution automatically tests web and mobile applications on over 500 browsers, OS and device combinations including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Opera browsers running on Windows, Linux and Macintosh OS, as well as iPhone, Google Android, Blackberry and Windows Mobile platforms to ensure compatibility, functionality, and performance.
Gomez also offers worldwide end-user experience testing and monitoring via its ExperienceFirst network, showing users how variables like location, consumer-grade ISPs, content delivery networks, connection speeds and computer performance all impact the end-user’s web performance. In March, Gomez doubled the number of measurement points on its ExperienceFirst network to 80,000 desktop computers between 162 countries.
