Have you ever given a thought to the sensitivity of website content? Unintended additions, missing information, or malicious tampering can damage your reputation and erode user trust.
Lack of visibility into your website can make it vulnerable to undetected downtime, poor user experience, lost engagement, and significant financial and reputational risks due to undesirable updates on it. Active website content monitoring is mandatory to protect your brand value, retain your customer trust, maintain a reliable user experience, and ensure ongoing business success.
By serving as a website’s vigilant digital guardian, Site24x7 employs a comprehensive monitoring approach to ensure optimal performance, integrity, and security. By intelligently tracking specific keywords, text, images, and other critical elements on your pages, Site24x7 instantly alerts you to missing or unexpected changes—ensuring your site's information stays accurate and trustworthy.
You can opt to receive alerts only for changes in some critical sections in the content or specific keywords, giving you complete control over your website’s integrity while avoiding unnecessary notifications. This streamlining ensures that you receive only the most relevant and actionable notifications, minimize alert fatigue, and help your team focus on the issues that matter most. You can configure this while creating website monitors in Site24x7.
Benefits of Site24x7's website content monitoring
The comprehensive website content monitoring features in Site24x7 provide numerous advantages for organizations:
- Monitors the presence or absence of specific keywords or strings on your website.
- Tracks text defacement by detecting changes in the visible content on rendered web pages.
- Measures the percentage of text modifications and triggering alerts based on the extent of changes.
- Calculates script modification percentage by comparing current scripts against the base DOM view.
- Identifies script defacement by detecting changes in embedded scripts and monitoring any changes in the "src" attribute of external scripts.
- Detects image defacement by monitoring changes in the "src" attributes of images on the page.
- Tracks anchor tag defacement by identifying changes in the "href" attributes of anchor links.
- Monitors iframe defacement by identifying changes in the "src" attributes and notifying if the domain name changes.
- Observes link defacement by tracking changes in the "href" attributes of link elements on the website page.
What to track to stay updated on the content changes on your website
Site24x7's flexible keyword monitoring enables you stay informed about your website's critical content presence or absence with customizable alert settings tailored to your needs.
- Opt to get alerted when specific keywords are absent from your website content. While configuring the website monitor, you can provide the keywords you want in the field next to Should contain string(s) and use the slider to set the type of alert you want to receive.
- Opt to receive alerts when specific keywords are present in your website content. You can provide the keywords you want in the field next to Should contain string(s) and choose the alert preferences using the slider.
- Configure your alert to trigger when a specific pattern matches your website content using regular expressions.
- When configuring HTTP response header checks, enter the desired header names
and their expected values to verify their presence and correctness in the
website's HTTP response. If a check fails, a trouble or down alert will be
triggered. Some best practices:
- You can add multiple headers, with each header supporting multiple values.
- Single values can be specified with or without double quotes (for example, keep-alive or "keep-alive").
- When specifying multiple values for a header, separate them with spaces and enclose each value in double quotes (for example, "gzip" "br").
- Header values also support regex validation, where the pattern should be formatted as "${<regex>}". For example, ${\d{4}} matches any four consecutive digits in the header value.
- Alert severity on header checks can be configured, and if the specified header is missing or the value does not match, an alert is triggered. Use the toggle to set the severity as either DOWN or TROUBLE based on your needs.
With Site24x7's easy and simple steps, select the pages and elements to track, set desired check intervals, and receive real-time notifications of any detected irregularities. Once this is done, your monitoring data will be available in intuitive dashboards, providing detailed change history and actionable insights for teams to resolve issues quickly. Safeguard your website from hidden risks, maintain user confidence, and create a foundation for continued business growth and optimization with Site24x7's website content monitoring.