Saving a Setup to Recheck the Same Page Every Week

Some checks are worth repeating. An SEO consultant looks at how a client’s page ranks in three countries every Monday. A shop owner checks that a new visitor still gets the welcome offer after each site update. Setting up the same strangers by hand each time gets old fast.

A setup saves a window’s strangers, each with its language and location, under a name. It holds nothing a stranger saw: no address, no cookie, no history. Open it again and you get the same strangers, brand new.

Once a window has the strangers you want, choose Setups, then Save this window as a setup, type a name in the bar and press Enter. It shows up in the same menu under Open in a new window.

A saved setup in the bar’s menu.

A Weekly Routine

1. Open the setup. A new window appears with the same strangers, each with a fresh store, at the start page.
2. Type the page’s address once. Every stranger goes there.
3. Click Compare, then Save image. The PNG’s file name carries the date and time.
4. Close the window. Everything the strangers collected is deleted.

After a few weeks, the saved images line up into a record of what each country, or each newcomer, was shown.

Where Setups Live

Setups are the one thing Unweb keeps, and only once you save one: a small file, setups.json, in Unweb’s settings folder. The reference gives the path for each system. Deleting the last setup deletes the file. A setup carries its proxies’ addresses, so treat the file like any other note of where your proxies are.