Automatically created website thumbnails have a wide usage from links in a website to a web application presenting URLs with their thumbnails.
Using a website thumbnail generation service is generally a time-saving decision both for the website owner (as it’ll be automated) & the visitor (for getting a better idea about the link).
Here are 10 free website thumbnail solutions including a "how to on creating your own".
Considering you’ll probably use one of these services in the future, make sure you bookmark the post.
A popular website thumbnail provider that has both free & paid plans.
Free plan is limited to 300,000 requests / month which is good for many websites. And, it is ad-free.
Usage is very simple, Just mention the thumbnail’s parameters in the img tag & that’s all. Like:
<img src="http://SnapCasa.com/Get.aspx?code=[code]&size=[size]&url=[url]" />
A powerful & free thumbnail service with 250,000 request limits / month & offers more limits in the paid plans.
For the free plan, no custom sizes can be mentioned & inner page thumbnails are not supported (but supports most of the ppular sizes). On the other hand, the service is ad-free and works with JavaScript / Flash embed.
websnapr offers free website thumbnails & puts a "powered by websnapr" phrase over the images. There are paid plans without imitations and more features.
There are ready to use plugins for Wordpress, Drupal & more that can be found here.
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