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About Sitewatch

We built Sitewatch to catch the breaks your uptime tool can't see

Sitewatch started from a frustration anyone who runs a website knows: your monitoring says everything is fine, but customers are hitting a broken page. A script goes missing after an update. Your styling vanishes. A checkout quietly stops taking payments. Your uptime tool doesn't care — it only checks whether the server responds. We built Sitewatch because a website that's "up" isn't the same as a website that works — and the difference is your sales, your leads, and your reputation.

  • Website monitoring: we check what visitors actually see
  • Plain-English diagnosis — what broke and how to fix it
  • Built for agencies and teams managing multiple sites
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What is Sitewatch?

Sitewatch is a website monitoring tool that checks whether your pages actually work — not just whether the server responds. Traditional uptime monitors ping a URL and report "up" the moment the server answers. Sitewatch loads the page the way a browser does and checks that everything on it works: the pages, scripts, styling, images, forms, and SSL certificate. When something breaks silently — a missing script after an update, dropped styling, a failed payment widget — Sitewatch catches it and tells you the cause in plain English.

Built for agencies, freelancers, and business owners who can't afford a quietly broken site, Sitewatch is free to start (no credit card), with paid plans for monitoring multiple sites. It's made by Nicky Christensen and lives at getsitewatch.com.

02The problem

Why website monitoring matters more than uptime

Uptime is a vanity metric

"Up" doesn't mean it works. A missing script, vanished styling, or a failed payment widget all happen on pages your uptime tool calls healthy. Your visitors see the damage — your uptime tool doesn't.

Hours of silent failure

Without real website monitoring, a broken deploy can go unnoticed for hours or days. Long enough for your customers — or your client — to find it first.

The platform matters

A broken WordPress site needs a different fix than a broken Shopify store. Sitewatch recognizes what you're running and gives you fix steps that match — not generic advice.

Deploy-aware monitoring

Every deploy is a risk. Sitewatch connects to Vercel, Netlify, and GitHub Actions to re-check your site immediately after every release — catching problems before your customers do.

03How we think about monitoring

Detect, diagnose, fix

  1. 01

    Detect everything

    We check every part of your pages — scripts, styling, images, fonts, forms, and the API calls behind them. Not just whether the server answers, but whether everything a visitor needs actually loads.

  2. 02

    Find the cause

    When something breaks, we don't just tell you it's broken. We identify the cause — a CDN issue, a bad deploy, a DNS failure, a third-party outage — so you know where to look.

  3. 03

    Hand you the fix

    Every incident comes with fix steps that match your setup. Running WordPress? You get WordPress-specific steps. On Shopify or a custom stack? A fix guide that fits — not generic advice.

The person behind Sitewatch

I built this because no one else would.

Nicky Christensen, Founder of Sitewatch

I’ve spent 15 years shipping websites for agencies, startups, and product teams. The thing that kept happening was embarrassingly simple: a site would break after a deploy, every dashboard would stay green, and the client would be the one to tell us. Not the tools. The client. I looked for a monitoring tool that actually checked what loads in the browser — not just whether the server responds. It didn’t exist. So I built Sitewatch.

Nicky Christensen

Founder, Sitewatch

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