[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":207},["ShallowReactive",2],{"seo-sitewatch-vs-oh-dear":3},{"slug":4,"kind":5,"archetype":5,"cluster":6,"navGroup":7,"navLabel":8,"meta":9,"breadcrumbs":13,"hero":21,"sections":58},"sitewatch-vs-oh-dear","resource-index","comparison","resources","Sitewatch vs Oh Dear",{"title":10,"description":11,"canonicalPath":12},"Sitewatch vs Oh Dear (2026) — Security Headers, Regression Alerts + Up-But-Broken","Oh Dear has mixed content detection. SiteWatch adds security header monitoring, the only security header regression tracking in the market, and catches up-but-broken failures.","/sitewatch-vs-oh-dear",[14,17,20],{"label":15,"href":16},"Home","/",{"label":18,"href":19},"Comparisons","/comparisons",{"label":8,"href":12},{"eyebrow":22,"headline":8,"intentStatement":23,"bullets":24,"primaryCta":34,"secondaryCta":37,"proofPanel":40},"Comparison","Oh Dear is a solid uptime and SSL monitor — and it has mixed content detection. But it doesn't monitor security headers, doesn't track when a deployment removes a header that was previously present, and doesn't catch up-but-broken failures like broken JS bundles, MIME mismatches, or domain expiry. SiteWatch covers all of it — and is the only monitoring tool with security header regression alerts.",[25,28,31],{"icon":26,"text":27},"heroicons:shield-check","Security header monitoring + regression alerts — unique to SiteWatch, no other tool tracks header disappearance",{"icon":29,"text":30},"heroicons:globe-alt","Domain expiry monitoring — SiteWatch watches registrations. Oh Dear does not.",{"icon":32,"text":33},"heroicons:shield-exclamation","Up-but-broken detection — broken assets, MIME errors, JS bundle failures Oh Dear misses",{"label":35,"href":36},"Try Sitewatch free","https://app.getsitewatch.com",{"label":38,"href":39},"See pricing","/#pricing",{"type":41,"reportTitle":42,"severity":43,"findings":44,"generatedAt":57},"report","Website integrity check","warning",[45,48,50,53,55],{"label":46,"status":47},"SSL certificate valid","pass",{"label":49,"status":47},"SSL chain valid",{"label":51,"status":52},"Domain expiry (24 days)","fail",{"label":54,"status":52},"JS bundle validation",{"label":56,"status":52},"Asset MIME types","Sitewatch website check report",[59,122,147,165,182,200],{"id":6,"tocLabel":22,"type":60,"eyebrow":61,"heading":62,"withoutLabel":63,"withLabel":64,"rows":65},"comparison-table","Feature comparison","What each tool monitors","Oh Dear","Sitewatch",[66,69,72,74,76,80,83,85,88,91,95,97,99,101,103,106,109,112,115,119],{"label":67,"withoutValue":68,"withValue":68},"HTTP uptime monitoring","Yes",{"label":70,"withoutValue":71,"withValue":71},"SSL certificate expiry","Yes — 30-day warning",{"label":73,"withoutValue":68,"withValue":68},"SSL chain validation",{"label":75,"withoutValue":68,"withValue":68},"TLS protocol checks",{"label":77,"withoutValue":78,"withValue":79},"Domain expiry monitoring","No","Yes — automatic via RDAP",{"label":81,"withoutValue":78,"withValue":82},"JS/CSS bundle validation","Yes — every linked asset",{"label":84,"withoutValue":78,"withValue":68},"MIME type verification",{"label":86,"withoutValue":78,"withValue":87},"Asset fingerprinting","Yes — hash-based change detection",{"label":89,"withoutValue":78,"withValue":90},"Deploy hook triggers","Yes — Vercel, Netlify, GitHub Actions",{"label":92,"withoutValue":93,"withValue":94},"Root cause diagnosis","Basic","Automatic classification + fix playbooks",{"label":96,"withoutValue":68,"withValue":68},"Broken link monitoring",{"label":98,"withoutValue":68,"withValue":78},"Cron job monitoring",{"label":100,"withoutValue":68,"withValue":78},"Scheduled task alerts",{"label":102,"withoutValue":68,"withValue":68},"Mixed content detection",{"label":104,"withoutValue":78,"withValue":105},"Security header monitoring","Yes — 5 headers on every check",{"label":107,"withoutValue":78,"withValue":108},"Security header regression alerts","Yes — unique to SiteWatch",{"label":110,"withoutValue":78,"withValue":111},"Page weight monitoring","Yes — alerts at 5MB total / 2MB per asset",{"label":113,"withoutValue":78,"withValue":114},"Third-party dependency health","Yes — per-domain outage detection",{"label":116,"withoutValue":117,"withValue":118},"Performance baseline regression","Basic — absolute threshold only","Yes — rolling p95 per site, unique to SiteWatch",{"label":120,"withoutValue":78,"withValue":121},"Free plan","Yes — 1 site",{"id":123,"tocLabel":124,"type":125,"eyebrow":126,"heading":127,"items":128},"what-oh-dear-misses","What Oh Dear misses","failure-modes-grid","The blind spots","Real failures Oh Dear won't catch",[129,134,138,142],{"icon":130,"title":131,"description":132,"severity":133},"heroicons:code-bracket","Broken JS bundle after deploy","Your deploy changes the JS bundle hash. 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Sitewatch catches it by validating the MIME type and content of every asset.","moderate",{"id":148,"tocLabel":149,"type":150,"eyebrow":151,"heading":152,"items":153},"ssl-parity","SSL parity","benefits-grid","Where Sitewatch matches Oh Dear","SSL monitoring depth — now at full parity",[154,157,161],{"icon":135,"title":155,"description":156},"Certificate expiry monitoring","30-day warning, critical at 14 days, critical incident on expiry. Same coverage as Oh Dear.",{"icon":158,"title":159,"description":160},"heroicons:link","Certificate chain validation","Broken intermediate certificates caught automatically. Same depth as Oh Dear.",{"icon":162,"title":163,"description":164},"heroicons:exclamation-triangle","TLS protocol and cipher checks","Deprecated TLS 1.0/1.1 and weak ciphers flagged. Matches Oh Dear's configuration scanning.",{"id":166,"tocLabel":167,"type":150,"eyebrow":168,"heading":169,"items":170},"where-sitewatch-wins","Where Sitewatch wins","Where Sitewatch goes further","Four things Oh Dear can't do",[171,173,175,178],{"icon":26,"title":107,"description":172},"Oh Dear has no security header monitoring. SiteWatch monitors 5 critical headers on every check and — uniquely — alerts you when a deployment removes a header that was previously present. No other monitoring tool does this.",{"icon":29,"title":77,"description":174},"SiteWatch automatically tracks domain registration expiry via RDAP for every monitored site. Oh Dear does not monitor domains. Add a site once — domain monitoring starts immediately.",{"icon":32,"title":176,"description":177},"Up-but-broken detection","Oh Dear checks if your site is up. SiteWatch checks if it works. Broken JS bundles, MIME mismatches, missing stylesheets, and asset failures are invisible to uptime tools — including Oh Dear.",{"icon":179,"title":180,"description":181},"heroicons:rocket-launch","Deploy verification","SiteWatch integrates with Vercel, Netlify, and GitHub Actions to trigger an automatic check after every deploy. Every ship gets a pass/fail verdict with a before/after diff.",{"id":183,"tocLabel":184,"type":185,"heading":186,"items":187},"faq","FAQ","faq-accordion","Comparison FAQ",[188,191,194,197],{"question":189,"answer":190},"Is Sitewatch a direct replacement for Oh Dear?","For most agency use cases, yes. SiteWatch covers everything Oh Dear does on SSL and uptime, adds domain expiry monitoring, and covers the \"up-but-broken\" category that Oh Dear was never designed for. The one area where Oh Dear has no SiteWatch equivalent is cron job and scheduled task monitoring — if that's a core use case, you'd need to evaluate both.",{"question":192,"answer":193},"Does Sitewatch now match Oh Dear on SSL monitoring?","Yes. SiteWatch monitors SSL certificate expiry (30-day warning, critical at 14 days), validates the full certificate chain, detects deprecated TLS 1.0 and 1.1 protocols, and flags weak cipher suites — RC4, 3DES, export-grade, and NULL ciphers. This matches Oh Dear's SSL depth.",{"question":195,"answer":196},"Oh Dear monitors domain expiry. Does Sitewatch?","Oh Dear does not monitor domain registration expiry. SiteWatch does — automatically via RDAP for every monitored site. 30-day early warning, critical at 7 days. No WHOIS tools, no API keys, no configuration.",{"question":198,"answer":199},"What's the pricing difference?","Oh Dear charges per site with no free plan. SiteWatch offers a free plan for 1 site, Starter at $9/mo for 25 sites, and Pro at $19/mo for 100 sites. Flat pricing with no per-seat fees.",{"id":201,"tocLabel":202,"type":203,"heading":204,"subtext":205,"primaryLabel":206,"primaryHref":36},"cta","Try Sitewatch","cta-strip","Security headers. Regression alerts. Domain expiry. Up-but-broken covered.","If you're evaluating Oh Dear, here's why agencies are switching to SiteWatch. Free plan available. No credit card required.","Start free monitoring",1777231448094]