Cloudways Partners With WP Remote To Power Visual Regression For 80,000 Agencies

We’ve got some big news

As you might know, Cloudways is one of the biggest web hosts in WordPress, powered by DigitalOcean and trusted by over half a million sites.

And we are happy to announce — they just added WP Remote’s Visual Regression to their platform, and rolled it out to 80,000+ agencies.

This is a major milestone… but more importantly, it shows how far the technology has come.

We’ve spent years improving our Visual Regression, and today it can detect visual changes as small as 0.003% while filtering out sliders, timers, and other harmless changes that make most VR tools so noisy.

What does this mean for you?

The VR in your dashboard has gotten even better over the past 3 months, and will continue to improve rapidly as more sites use it. So if you haven’t tried it yet, now is the best time to do so. Let me show you why.

How WP Remote Helped Cloudways

Cloudways wanted to make it easier for agencies to manage websites at scale. And one of the biggest headaches in that job is keeping every site updated safely.

Updates take time, but they also carry risk.

A plugin update may run successfully, but quietly change your site. Buttons move, menus break, fonts change in some places — small changes that you might miss when updating lots of sites.  

But missing even one of these issues can mean a broken page, an unhappy client, and an urgent fix later.

Now, Visual Regression is supposed to solve this by taking screenshots before and after the update, alerting you of such changes.

The problem is that websites are highly dynamic. Sliders rotate. Testimonials change. Images load at different speeds. Cookie banners appear. Countdown timers keep moving.

And most Visual Regression tools struggle to tell the difference between this normal movement and an actual problem.

So agencies are left with two bad options: deal with a constant stream of false alerts, or raise the sensitivity threshold so much that the tool starts missing the small changes it was meant to catch.

This is where WP Remote works differently.

It can detect changes as small as 0.003%, while understanding which parts of the page are expected to change. That could mean catching a button that moved by two pixels or even a subtle font-weight change.

What Makes Our VR Different

WP Remote took years to study how agencies actually work, and our Visual Regression does 3 things differently —

1. It waits until the page is actually ready

A screenshot taken too early can make a perfectly healthy website look broken. An image may still be loading. A preloader may be covering the page. JavaScript may not have finished running.

So our TrueCapture waits for the website to settle before taking the screenshot. It also handles Cloudflare screens, staging sites, and password-protected pages. This gives WP Remote a clean, accurate screenshot to compare against.

2. It knows which changes to ignore

Once the page has been captured properly, WP Remote needs to decide which differences actually matter.

That’s where SignalSense comes in to identify sections that are designed to change, such as sliders, rotating testimonials, and countdown timers.

Instead of applying one sensitivity threshold to the entire page, it treats dynamic and static sections differently. This means it can ignore a testimonial showing a different quote while still catching a navigation menu that has unexpectedly broken onto two lines.

3. It catches the tiniest changes

Filtering out harmless movement only solves half the problem. The tool still needs to catch the small changes that can make a website look wrong.

PixelScan can detect differences as small as 0.003%. That includes a subtle colour change, text unexpectedly switching to ALL CAPS, or an element moving by a single pixel.

And it does not just give you a percentage and leave you to work out what happened.

WP Remote highlights the affected area and shows you exactly where the change occurred, so you can quickly decide whether the update is safe or needs to be rolled back.

It’s Built Into the Update Process

The best part is that you do not need to remember to run a separate visual test. Visual Regression is built directly into the update process.

WP Remote takes a backup, captures the site, runs the update, and compares the before-and-after versions automatically.

If something has changed, it highlights the affected area so you can review it and roll back the update if needed.

No separate setup. No switching between tools. No manually checking every page after every update. It simply becomes part of how you safely update a website.

What this means for WP Remote users

This partnership gives us the chance to test our VR and other site management features across even more websites, which means solving more edge cases and improving WP Remote even faster for all our agency customers.

The Visual Regression in your dashboard today is significantly better than it was six months ago, and it will continue improving as it operates across more websites.

If you have not tried it yet, try it out now because you’ll be delighted by how much time it saves you, or schedule a demo with us, and we’ll help you set this up for your agency.