Site Watch
Most sites find out they are down the way a shopkeeper finds out the front door is stuck: someone knocks. Site Watch stands outside the door from ten places at once, walks the aisles on a schedule, and sends one note when something changes and one more when it is fixed.
Watch my site See what it checks
Free for one site. No card, no script to install for the checks that exist today.
Outside view
A small probe runs on three providers across North America, Europe, South America and Asia Pacific. Each one fetches your homepage every cycle, records how long DNS, the handshake and the first byte took, and reports in. A separate crawl walks the pages on a schedule and compares what it found with last time.
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Inside view
A script under three kilobytes, optional, that reports script errors, images that failed to load, the dead pages people actually reached and the page speed they actually got. It sets no cookies and sends nothing that identifies a person.
Coming next. Not yet available.
An email goes out when a state changes, never on a timer. Down and back up. A certificate crossing 21 days, then 7. New error-level problems after a crawl. Each one carries a line of context and a link to the dashboard, and the back-to-green email is not optional, because a green dot you cannot trust is worse than no dot.
Down is a verdict, not an opinion. It needs at least 3 healthy locations reporting in the same cycle, at least two of them failing, and failures in the majority. Every probe also checks two control sites each cycle; a location that cannot reach those is ignored for that cycle rather than allowed to vote. One location failing alone becomes a regional notice, which is often the more useful thing to know.
Worst case from outage to email: about 6 minutes on Pro, about 35 minutes on the free tier.
The probe and the crawler identify themselves honestly, respect the limits a site sets, and are described on the bot page. Nothing about your visitors is collected today. When the visitor-side script arrives it will send no cookies, no identifiers, no page content and no form values, so it can sit on a public-sector site without touching the consent banner.
Pro is the existing $59 a month subscription. There is no separate Watch plan to buy.
| What you get | Free$0 | Pro$59/mo |
|---|---|---|
| Sites watched | 1 | 3 |
| Reachability checks | Every 30 minutes from 3 locations (Oregon, Virginia, Frankfurt) | Every 5 minutes from all 10 locations, with per-location latency |
| Crawl for broken pages and links | Every 7 days, up to 100 pages | Daily, up to 8,000 pages per site |
| Alerts | Down, back up, certificate and domain expiry; weekly digest for the rest | Every change the moment it is confirmed; daily digest of open issues |
| Webhooks and extra recipients | — | Yes |
| History shown | 30 days | 13 months |
| Raw check data kept | 7 days | 90 days |
| Readiness grade tracked over time | — | Yes |
FAQ
Yes, for one site. The free tier checks reachability every 30 minutes from 3 locations, crawls the site every 7 days, and emails you when the site goes down, comes back, or the certificate or domain is about to expire. Everything daily, historical or multi-site rides the existing Pro subscription.
Not for the checks that exist today. You add the site, prove it is yours with a meta tag or a DNS record, and the checks start within minutes. The visitor-side script is the next phase and will be optional.
Pro sites are probed every 5 minutes from all 10 locations, so the worst case from outage to email is about 6 minutes. Free sites are probed every 30 minutes, so about 35 minutes. Both figures are stated rather than promised as instant, because they are what the system actually does.
No. An alert fires once when something changes and once when it clears. Open issues roll into one digest, daily on Pro and weekly on free. There is no repeat reminder for a problem you already know about.
No. Site Watch does not keep a link index or a keyword index and does not pretend to by borrowing someone else's. It watches whether the site is up, whole and findable, which is the part no one else tells you about until a visitor does.