Web Test Agents: Restoring the Real-World User Experience to the World

When your local test site everything is normal, your users may be all over the country or even the world, using different networks such as telecom, Unicom, mobile and so on. A very real problem is: a website that works fine for you may not work at all for users in other regions. Pages may open slowly, images may not be displayed, or clicking on buttons may not respond at all.

To solve this problem, you need to know how the site really behaves in different geographies and networks. You can't run around the country to test it yourself, and the most effective way to do that, is to test it using a proxy IP.

I. What is a proxy IP

Proxy IP, can be understood as a network transit station. Normally you visit a website, the path is: your computer → web server. When you use a proxy IP, the path becomes: your computer → proxy IP → web server. The web server can only see the proxy IP address, not your real address.

Second, how to use proxy IP test site

You need a large number of proxy IPs from different regions and connecting to different ISPs.For example, IPIPGO, provides high quality IP resources covering 200+ countries/regions around the world. Including static and dynamic residential IP, 99.9% stable operation, can realistically simulate the network conditions of users around the world.

Next configure the test tool. Don't change IP manually, it takes too much time. Use an automation tool and fill in the proxy IP address, port and password information into the tool. ipipgo provides a visualization panel and supports Windows/Android clients.respond in singingGoogle plugin that newbies can learn quickly.

The test does three main things:

一是测速度，用每个IP打开网站首页，记下完整加载时间。IPIPGO平均在100毫秒以内，能帮你看清网站在各地的真实速度。

The second is to test the function, using proxy IP to simulate the actual operation of the user, such as logging in, filling out forms, placing orders for payment, to ensure that each link can be completed properly.

Third, check the display effect, with different IP access to save screenshots, compare the page layout, pictures, text in different places to show whether it is consistent, there is no misplaced or missing.

Third, the benefits of testing websites with proxy IPs

The most immediate thing is time saving. Using automated tools with a large number of IPs, you can do in a few hours what used to take weeks of manual testing, and the site goes live and is updated much faster.

The data obtained from the test is very real, you can clearly see the access speed of users around the world, according to which you can decide whether to add servers in a certain region, or optimize a certain part of the code.

Being able to fix bugs before users realize the problem. For example, if you find out in advance the display problem caused by the network in a certain region, after fixing the problem, the user will have a better access experience and will not be easily lost.

Do a comprehensive test with proxy IP before the big event, can understand the performance of the site in different networks, to avoid the beginning of the event due to geographical network problems lead to site paralysis.

Proxy IP can examine the website from the perspective of global users, get more accurate data, find more specific problems, and improve the overall quality of the website and user experience.