Is there any tools to verify website can be viewed in specified countries?
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Dear PH community,
My question may be stupid, but it's very important to me for developing my products. I would like to verify that my website can be viewed by specific users from specified countries such as United States, Canada, Mexico, etc. I tried some web proxy via Google search results. It works but I'm not sure it's really from specified countries, for eg., I checked with United States but YouTube video returns Chinese interface, that means website is accessed from China, not United States.
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For automated testing, You could combine Playwright with a geo targeted proxy and IPI. Then you can verify both the outgoing IP and what your website detects.
The hard part seems to be confirming the actual location, not just getting the website to load.
You could check the IP's detected country first, then test the website separately.
If you're checking many countries, being able to select a country and test it quickly would save a lot of time.
@bouzadamanuel0934 Can you suggest some reliable web proxy for checking users from many countries?
One thing I'd love to know is whether you need to test IP based location only or the complete experience a user from that country would see. Those can produce very different results.
@oscar_bennett
I only need to know if users from specified countries, such as United States, Canada, Mexico, etc. can load my website. I think I find the way from your idea: adding an iframe to PHP script which check IP based location and use web proxy to test. IP based location checking will verify where users come from.
Before paying for anything, try an IP checking site through the proxy and compare the reported country ASN, time zone, and ISP. If those don't line up, I wouldn't trust the proxy for product testing.
@owen_carter3 Thank you for your suggestion, I will add IP based location checking for my website to test with web proxy.