9 Free Websites for Taking Screen Shot or Thumbnail of a Website

I have written a post on Firefox Add-ons for screen shot capturing here, and this post is on websites that let you take a screen shot or thumbnail shot of a website. Taking a screen shot of a website is useful in many aspects, you can use in your blogs posts, and Screen shots are small so they do not take a large space and loads quickly. And they give you full-page preview of a website.

If you are looking for tools for screen capturing of a website you will you will be already familiar how to use them.
I have written this post for taking a screenshot or thumbnail of a webpage, but these services are for webpage preview in a link, as you see in TechCrunch.I have included the term “free” in title of this post means you can generate a thumbnail of a website in free of cost.

Shrinktheweb
shrinktheweb is top service for taking screenshots of a website. You can take screenshot of a website without signup. After signup you can take screenshots in bulk. It is a free service. You can upgrade to pro. You can use this service for your website also to preview a link before visiting it.

Thumbalizr
It is also very good service, you can use this service for your website also, it is also free, and after generating thumbnail of a website you can customize its size to download it. It is already available to download in different sizes.

Websnapr
This is also very good one, you can take screen shot of a website easily, you can use this service for your site also, it provides 100,000 snap shot impression for free users. It includes watermark in thumbnails.

Snapcasa
It is also a free website thumbnail provider. It provides 500,000 free monthly screen shots. But it is not useful for instant snapshot to use in your blog posts.

Aviary Capture
t is very good and only for taking screenshot capture. After taking a capture you can edit it and save to your desktop or host it online. It generates a large screen shot or full size of a webpage. It is picture editor also, some time it does not work so you can use Firefox add-on also. You can get add-on here.

Superscreenshot
It is only for taking screenshot, you enter a URL and it gives you a thumbnail of it. You can view last 100 screenshots taken on this site.

Sitethumbshot
This also fast in taking screen shot of a website, choose your size in given option and click show me. It also searches in its database for old screenshots.

Bitpixels
You can use this service for your website also, you enter a URL and it provides a thumbnail for it. It looks in its database of thumbnails.

Webthumb bluga
You can create thumbnail of a website. You can use this service for your website also.