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Thursday, January 13, 2011

Check if website or blog blocked in china ?

how to test whether my site is blocked in china or is inaccessible anywhere else in the world? this was the question came to my mind when one of my friend in china said that he was not able to access or view my site in china, it is said that china has more internet users than anyone in the world if your site is banned in china means that your are loosing a major chunk of traffic to your site especially if you are targeting people around the world.

Blocking and filtering the web content is being in china since 1998 under code name "Golden Shield Project" which protects citizen from pornography, anti-social activities, activities that is considered threat to National security etc.

So how to find whether your site or blog is blocked by Chinese government or not accessible?

there are few web-portal which offer services to check whether your website or blog is accessible across the major cities of the world

1.Watch Mouse
2.Just Ping
3.Website Pulse

watch mouse and just ping simply do a ping test where as Website pules is said to download the complete HTML and also checks the total response time and time taken to download the whole HTML content, for some reason the website pules was going to infinite loop and i was not able to check it. if you guys know any other tools or tips to check the accessibility do share it with us.

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