URL Profiler Blog

• Update 2.0 – Upgraded Screen Capture & Scraping

  Posted on: November 27th, 2019 by Tyler Puig in Updates

  We’ve made some major changes to URL Profiler’s Screen Capture and scraping features. Improved: Screen Capture We have now implemented Chromium, which is essentially a headless browser that, in use, is the same as Google Chrome. We were previously using PhantomJS. This means that our screen capture feature is now more accurate and should work […]

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• Update 1.92 – Revamped Google Indexation Checker

  Update version 1.92

  Posted on: July 15th, 2019 by Patrick Hathaway in Updates

  Since our last big update when we added Lighthouse data to Page Speed, we’ve run a number of low-key updates that didn’t warrant a blog post about them. But this time we’ve got a fix to a core feature, so we suggest everyone jumps on this new version of the software. Improved: Google Indexation Checker […]

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• Update 1.85 – Lighthouse & CrUX Data at Scale

  Update 1.85

  Posted on: November 27th, 2018 by Patrick Hathaway in Updates

  The latest URL Profiler update contains a new and improved PageSpeed API integration, utilizing the very recently released Lighthouse data, which you can now see in Google PageSpeed Insights: This is a departure from the old PageSpeed metrics, which were based on performance optimization rules – whereas these metrics are much more user-centric. Lighthouse Data […]

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• Update 1.83

  Posted on: June 28th, 2018 by Patrick Hathaway in Updates

  The latest URL Profiler update contains a big fix for Mac, plus a bunch of other smaller fixes and changes which affect both Windows and Mac. Fixed: Mac TLS Issue As some of you have noticed, URL Profiler had become unable to correctly process data on some HTTPS URLs, and users were getting HTTP 400 […]

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• Update 1.78 – Critical Updates

  Posted on: November 20th, 2017 by Patrick Hathaway in Updates

  The latest URL Profiler update contains a big fix for Mac, plus a bunch of other smaller fixes and changes which affect both Windows and Mac. Fixed: Mac TLS Issue As some of you have noticed, URL Profiler had become unable to correctly process data on some HTTPS URLs, and users were getting HTTP 400 […]

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• Update 1.74 – Removing Facebook Shares

  Update 1.74

  Posted on: September 1st, 2016 by Patrick Hathaway in Updates

  With this update, we had to take the regrettable step of removing Facebook share count from our social share feature. The eagle-eyed among you will have noticed that it has been returning zeros for the last couple of weeks, and this is due to Facebook depreciating the API we used to gather this data. Whilst […]

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• Update 1.68 (and 1.67, 1.66, 1.65, 1.64, 1.63…)

  URL Profiler Update 1.68

  Posted on: June 20th, 2016 by Patrick Hathaway in Updates

  We’ve not done a big update in a while, and this isn’t a big update either. Instead we’ve been doing lots of small updates, so this is a quick announcement post to get everyone up to speed with the things that have changed over the last couple of months. Let’s face it, you don’t want […]

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• How to Scrape Data From Twitter Profile Pages

  Scrape Twitter

  Posted on: January 8th, 2016 by Patrick Hathaway in How To, Social, Tools

  Update: 1/8/2019 Twitter has updated their layout to render data primarily through Javascript. You will need to scrape https://mobile.twitter.com rather than https://twitter.com. As mobile twitter still renders html in the source. We will be updating the scraper soon to be able to crawl js rendered content. I have been meaning to write this blog post […]

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• Update 1.60 – Keyword Extraction & Improved Social Profile Scraping

  URL Profiler Update 1.60

  Posted on: December 2nd, 2015 by Patrick Hathaway in Updates

  Do you want the good news or the bad news? Good news is we have a new update (woohoo!), bad news is that not a lot has changed (boo!). We’ve had a recent issue with Majestic data not coming back correctly, so this is a release driven by necessity (to fix the problem), although we […]

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• Step-by-Step Guide to Resource Link Building

  Resource Link Building

  Posted on: November 19th, 2015 by Patrick Hathaway in SEO

  This is the first ever guest post published on the URL Profiler blog, and we are delighted to welcome Benjamin Beck to share his thoughts with us. You will almost definitely be aware of Benjamin’s work, as he’s one of those guys that just seems to be everywhere. He’s published on all the big industry […]

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