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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The hard part seems to be confirming the actual location, not just getting the website to load.
@sathesharayu12 Can you suggest some reliable PHP library for checking actual location?
You could check the IP's detected country first, then test the website separately.
@daniel_carter19 Thank you for your suggestion. I will add checking IP location feature for my website.
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.
I added IP-based location checking feature to my website [ Paysellable ], but I found that web proxies (from Google search results) can not display my website with this feature. Even more, I found that most web proxies does not have real server placed at specified places, such as United States, they just simulate IP from specified places, such as United States.
I look for virtual desktop service which have real desktop placed at specifed places, such as United States but it's seem to be that there is not kind of that service. I tried locabrowser.com but it's blocked by ProBoards, that's mean it does not have real IP from specified places, such as United States.
I'm stuck in question: Can users which come from United States access my website? I don't have any reliable solution to check this state.
You could use a tool like Google Analytics or Google Search Console, which can indicate where your website traffic is coming from or which search terms your site is appearing for. It doesn't necessarily indicate where a site isn't visible though.