Tested tool guide
Tested browser tools
Checked August 16, 2026
What Responsive Design Checker does, with a checked example
Paste a URL and the page loads inside a resizable iframe, letting you watch its layout reflow as the frame moves between mobile, tablet, and desktop widths. Breakpoint presets snap to common phone and tablet sizes; dragging the frame's edge resizes continuously, and the page's own CSS media queries do the reflow work - no screenshots are taken. The URL loads directly in your browser, so nothing you paste is uploaded. The usual surprise: an iframe can change only the width. The embedded page still sees a desktop browser, so user-agent-sniffing sites keep their desktop layout even at 320 px, and many sites deliberately refuse to render inside any iframe.
Worked example
A concrete input and expected output from the current implementation.
Input
https://example.com/ with the 375 px mobile preset
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Expected output
The page opens in an iframe exactly 375 px wide, laid out at that width by its own CSS. Dragging the frame's edge to 768 px reflows it instantly - each breakpoint in the page's media queries fires as the frame crosses it - and returning to 375 px restores the narrow layout, with no reload at any point.
The iframe's width is the viewport the page sees, so the result follows mechanically: set the width, and the page's media queries re-evaluate against it. The preview shows only what the page's own CSS does at that width; it does not simulate a phone's user agent, touch input, or pixel density.