Tips, tutorials and product updates on SEO, performance, security, and uptime monitoring.
Web agencies are sitting on a stream of legitimate maintenance work their clients need but never ask for. Here's how AI is making that conversation easier to start.
By team
We're pleased to announce that the SiteVitals AI Audit extension for Firefox has been approved and is now available on the Mozilla Add-ons store.
By team
3 min read
Semantic HTML isn't just good practice, it's how AI systems identify, trust, and cite your content. Here's what we now check and why it matters.
By tom
9 min read
The SiteVitals Monitor plugin records every WordPress update to your change timeline, so when something breaks, you know exactly what changed and when.
By tom
3 min read
SiteVitals now analyses how well your content can be read and cited by AI systems. Here is exactly what each metric means, why it exists, and how to interpret your score.
By tom
9 min read
A couple of changes went live this week that will improve how SiteVitals tracks and surfaces problems across your websites. On their own they might seem like small quality-of-life improvements. But they're part of a bigger picture, so I wanted to explain what changed and where we're heading.
By tom
4 min read
For forty years, software quality was gated by who wrote the code. That assumption is dissolving — agents, marketers, and ops people are all shipping now, and human review can't keep up. Here's why the answer isn't slowing them down, and where the real governance layer is moving instead.
By tom
7 min read
SiteVitals now monitors the status of individual services on your Linux servers — nginx, MySQL, Redis, PHP-FPM and more. Get alerted the moment a service stops or starts crash-looping, with full context captured at failure time.
By tom
6 min read
SiteVitals now monitors your Linux servers — CPU, memory, disk, load average, and running processes. Install the agent in 60 seconds and get alerted before your sites go down.
By tom
7 min read
A few weeks ago I wrote about "why technical SEO needs an AI layer" and walked through the schema validator, AI crawler audit, and llms.txt checker we had built into SiteVitals. The response was encouraging - but the most common question I got was some variant of: "My schema passes your checks, but I'm still not showing up in AI answers. What else can I do?"
By tom
10 min read
When your site goes down, every minute matters—but not every alert should fire at once. SiteVitals now lets you set individual delays for each notification channel, so the right people are alerted at the right time. Notify your on-call developer immediately, escalate to managers if the issue persists, and keep leadership informed without unnecessary noise. It’s a smarter, more flexible way to handle incidents - automatically.
By tom
8 min read
If you’ve been in the web industry for more than a minute, you know UptimeRobot. Launched in 2010, it’s the "Old Guard" of monitoring. It’s reliable, it’s familiar, and it’s the tool many of us used for our very first side projects. But as we move through 2026, the web has changed. A website being "up" is no longer the finish line - it’s the bare minimum.
By team
5 min read