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I am also specifically interested in what techniques they they are using to determine the levels of change - Is it based on content changes or changes in (x)html tree structure?

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since it says visual ping, perhaps render html => image and take diffs periodically , setting threshold to size of difference?

Since, you can specify a specific slice of the page to monitor, it's likely diffing screenshots.

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