Resources

Practical guides to studying competitor websites and presenting what you find. No fluff, no gated PDFs: the full method on the page.

Guide

The complete guide to competitor teardowns

What a competitor teardown is, the five pages worth studying, how to capture the evidence, and how to turn it into a deck people act on. A practical guide.

Updated 24 July 2026·14 min read

Guide

UX competitive analysis: a practical guide

How to run a UX competitive analysis: choosing comparators, what to evaluate on rival sites, a heuristics table, and turning findings into design decisions.

Updated 24 July 2026·12 min read

Guide

Competitor analysis for a website redesign

How to run competitor analysis for a website redesign: pick five comparator sites, capture your own site first, compare the right things, set principles.

Updated 24 July 2026·10 min read

Guide

How to take a full-page screenshot of any website

Four free ways to capture a whole web page in one image: Chrome DevTools, Firefox, Safari and extensions, plus phone captures and batch capture for research.

Updated 24 July 2026·10 min read

Guide

How to monitor competitor websites for changes

Which competitor pages to watch, how often, and methods compared: manual checks, the Wayback Machine, change detectors like Visualping, and Stravue watches.

Updated 24 July 2026·11 min read

Guide

How to present competitor research people act on

Why competitor research dies in spreadsheets, the ten-slide deck format people act on, slide order, live versus async delivery, and tailoring to the room.

Updated 24 July 2026·10 min read

Comparison

Website screenshot tools for research, compared

Browser built-ins, extensions like GoFullPage, screenshot APIs and the Wayback Machine compared with Stravue for research decks. Honest advice by job.

Updated 24 July 2026·9 min read

Guide

Using the Wayback Machine for competitor research

What the Wayback Machine does well for competitor research, how to read its snapshots, its honest limits, and when a forward-looking watch fits better.

Updated 24 July 2026·8 min read