Below is a screenshot of the current site stats, click on it to enlarge it. It shows approximately 15,000 image loads per day, viewed by ~9,000 unique people, across ~220 unique websites.

The site also received a bit of love in the design department in the last couple of weeks, with some CSS clean up and a new logo.

Update April 23rd, 2010:

Add-on users represent a small number of the visitors to UploadScreenshot but account for almost 1/4 of all uploads. Further add-on usage growth will result in more site growth, and vice-versa.

We completed the API last week, which allows others to develop applications that upload to the site. Now we're working on a chrome extension so that we can extend our reach to more users.

Update April 13th 2010:
The number of daily active users of the add-on continues to grow, with 928 today!

Update April 17th 2010:
The number of daily active users of the add-on continues to grow, with 1248 today!

Bandwidth in Austin is disproportionately more expensive than Dallas and Houston which have some of the cheapest bandwidth in the country because they are very well connected cities.

I'd love to setup a new build office block here in Austin which offered bandwidth to small businesses at affordable prices. Lots of small companies like mine need to upload and download the occasional 5 gig file and it takes hours on the overpriced cable connection.

Here is what the stats page looks like:

Here is a link to a stats page for one of my screenshots: http://www.uploadscreenshot.com/stats/45689/5906957

I find this useful when testing the output of remote video conversions, etc. This allows me to playback the video as it downloads from the server, rather than having to download the whole file and test the playback locally.

Here is an example of it in action: http://playflv.org/?file=http%3A%2F%2Finfohole.com%2Fblog%2Fvideocdn%2Fcleaning-the-tank-sept-2008.flv

It also helps when I want to show a video file to a client or friend, but don't want to make it public on YouTube. I can simply drop an flv into my DropBox and then paste the link into PlayFLV.

You can download the PowerConnect 5424 user manual here: 54xx_ug-dell-switch.pdf

The great feature of this site is that you do not need to save the screenshot as an image file. Simply click the PASTE button on the site and the image will be uploaded right from your clipboard. To get an image in your clipboard you can press the PrintScreen button on your keyboard, or use ALT+PrintScreen to only screenshot the currently active window.

The site provides a large and a small image embed code so that you can paste a clickable screenshot into a forum, website, blogpost, etc. Just like below:

H.264 is a more processor intensive codec than previous codecs allowing for much higher quality video to be stored in smaller files. Apple has been making use of this technology for a while now within their .mov offering, but the ability to play H.264 video with the flash player means that web video can easily take advantage of this technology.

I just grabbed the Transformers movie trailer from Apple (in 720p .mov format, encoded with H.264) totalling 105MB, and have plugged it into the flash player below. Check out the full screen quality!

Previously even with ON2 VP6 such quality would of required around a 170MB file.

Update 29th May 2008: I have uploaded three copies of the IronMan movie trailer to demo the quality of H.264 at various bitrates and filesizes. Honestly I have a hard time telling the difference in quality even on a 24" monitor. The 480p seems like a perfect solution for full screen web video.

480p 56mB
[See post to watch Flash video]

720p 121mB
[See post to watch Flash video]

1080p 197mB
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