Your WordPress Site Updated. Did Anything Break?

Yes. Sitewatch monitors externally over HTTP — no server-side plugin needed. It works with WP Engine, Kinsta, SiteGround, Cloudways, shared hosting, and self-hosted WordPress. If your site loads in a browser, Sitewatch can monitor it.

The best WordPress monitoring tool depends on what you need to catch. Plugin-based tools (like Jetpack or ManageWP) run inside WordPress and report on updates and uptime, but they can go down with the site they live on. External tools like UptimeRobot ping the server but miss page-level breakage. Sitewatch is built for the failure mode that matters most after updates — broken assets, stale caches, and redirect loops that return 200 OK — and it runs externally with no plugin, so it keeps working even when WordPress itself is struggling.

Yes. Sitewatch runs lightweight ping checks for uptime tracking and full integrity checks that validate every asset on the page — both on every monitored site. You get classic uptime monitoring plus the page-level checks that catch post-update breakage, in one tool.

Sitewatch analyzes your page HTML and HTTP response headers during every check. It identifies WordPress core, your theme framework, popular plugins (WooCommerce, Contact Form 7, Elementor, etc.), and your hosting/CDN environment. This detection powers stack-specific fix playbooks.

Yes. When a plugin update changes or removes a script file, the old reference in your cached page returns a 404. Sitewatch checks every linked script and stylesheet on your pages. A missing or broken asset triggers an incident with the exact URL and HTTP status code.

No. Sitewatch is fully external. It fetches your pages over HTTP and validates every linked asset. No plugins, no server-side code, no performance impact. Setup takes about 60 seconds — paste your URL and go.

Yes. Sitewatch supports monitoring multiple sites from a single dashboard. The Pro plan covers up to 100 sites at $19/month. Each site gets independent checks, per-site alert routing, and a client-facing status page.

Check intervals are configurable per site — from every 30 minutes on Free up to every 5 minutes on Pro. You can also trigger on-demand checks after updates using the dashboard or deploy hooks.

The reliable way is to compare the page after the update against a known-good baseline. Sitewatch fingerprints your page HTML and validates every linked asset on each check, so when an update changes or removes a script, breaks a stylesheet, or alters the redirect chain, you get an incident naming the exact asset and HTTP status — usually within minutes of the update, not when a visitor complains. Connect a deploy hook and the check runs the moment you click "Update."

Yes. Page builders like Elementor, Divi, and Beaver Builder load a lot of their own scripts and stylesheets, which makes them especially prone to broken-asset issues after updates. Because Sitewatch validates every asset the page actually loads — not just the homepage HTML — it catches a builder script that 404s or a stylesheet served with the wrong MIME type, regardless of which builder produced the page.

Sitewatch is not a malware scanner, but it surfaces the symptoms of a compromise from the outside: unexpected third-party scripts appearing on your pages, content that changes against your known-good baseline, new redirects to unfamiliar domains, and security headers that suddenly disappear. Those are common signs of a hacked WordPress site, and catching them early — before Google flags you or visitors see spam — is often the difference between a quick cleanup and a blocklisted domain.

Yes. The white screen of death (WSOD) is usually a PHP fatal error or plugin conflict that leaves a blank page — sometimes still returning a 200 status, which fools basic uptime checks. Sitewatch fingerprints the rendered page, so a sudden collapse to an empty or near-empty page triggers an incident even when the HTTP status looks fine — so you find out the moment the site goes blank, not when a visitor reports it.

Plugin-based tools (Jetpack, ManageWP) run inside WordPress and are great for updates and backups, but they can go down with the site they live on. Ping-based tools (UptimeRobot, Pingdom) confirm the server responds but miss page-level breakage. Sitewatch combines external uptime checks with full page-integrity validation — assets, headers, redirects, and content — so it catches both downtime and the silent "up but broken" failures that plugin and ping tools miss.