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You only create an account if you want to turn the scan into continuous monitoring.",{"question":164,"answer":165},"What does the scan check?","Four things uptime monitors miss: publicly exposed files and staging sites, email spoofability (SPF, DMARC, and DKIM), whether your social link previews actually render, and broken conversion paths like dead contact links and forms.",{"question":167,"answer":168},"How is this different from an uptime monitor?","An uptime monitor tells you the server responded. The Sitewatch scan tells you whether the site actually works — and what you've left exposed. A page can return a perfect 200 OK while its checkout is dead and its .env file is one URL away from anyone.",{"question":170,"answer":171},"Is the scan safe to run on my site?","Yes. The scan only reads what's already publicly reachable — the same things any visitor or search engine can request. 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If everything's clean, that's worth knowing too.",1782418053634]