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Explore a site

Explore captures a site instead of a path. Give it a start page and it follows the site’s links, keeping a screenshot of each page it reaches, on every device you pick. Use it to see a whole site at once, or to keep a dated record of one.

Start an Explore

On Journeys, choose New journey and switch the mode to Explore. There’s no goal to write: just the start page, the devices, and how many pages to capture.

The New journey dialog in Explore mode, with Desktop, Tablet, and Mobile picked, a start URL, Max screens at 12, and Capture full pages unchecked.
Max screens
How many pages to capture, up to 24.
Capture full pages
Screenshot each whole page, top to bottom, instead of the first screen. It scrolls first so lazy content loads. Slower, and very tall pages are saved at a lower resolution.
Browse in dark mode
Capture the site’s dark theme, if it has one. Comes with the Pro plan.

Which pages it captures

Links only
It follows links, never buttons or forms, so it doesn’t open menus, submit anything, or sign up.
Same site
Only links on the start page’s host. www.example.com and example.com count as one.
Nearest first
Every link on the start page before any link on the pages after it, so the top of the navigation comes first.
Popups cleared
On every page and device, it declines the cookie banner (never accepting it) and closes newsletter, promotion, and other popups before the screenshot.
Each page once
One screenshot per address. A page reached from several links appears once.
How many
12 pages unless you change Max screens, at most 24. It also stops after about eight minutes, and says so when pages were left.

Read the result

Each page gets a row. Under its title, the row says which page linked to it and the link’s text, so you can retrace how it got there. On several devices, the same page sits side by side on each, at the same height.

An Explore of northwind.example on desktop, tablet, and mobile, under a line saying 1 of 3 pages had problems. Page 1, the home page, and page 2, the pricing page, each appear on all three devices side by side.
The phone folds the navigation behind a Menu button and stacks the pricing cards.

The device tabs above the rows show one device’s pages as a grid. Select any screenshot to open it full size, then switch devices from the viewer or step through the pages with the arrow keys.

Keep a record

Every run is kept. Choose Run again after a redesign, or set the journey to repeat daily or weekly, and flip between runs from the chips under the title to see what changed.