Tips, tutorials and product updates on SEO, performance, security, and uptime monitoring.
Oh Dear is one of the most well-known website monitoring tools for developers and agencies, and for good reason. It is well-built, well-priced, and backed by Spatie - one of the most respected teams in the Laravel community. If you are shopping for a monitoring tool, it is probably already on your list.
By team
11 min read
We've completely rebuilt how SiteVitals monthly reports work - from what data they capture, to how they look in your inbox, to what you see when you open them in the dashboard. Here's what's changed and why it matters.
By team
5 min read
If you’ve ever had a client’s site "go down," only to discover hours later that their IT department migrated their email and accidentally nuked their A record in the process, this update is for you.
Today, we’re excited to announce Intelligent DNS Change Monitoring for SiteVitals. We aren’t just checking if your domain is "up" - we are now snapshotting your DNS and alerting you the second a record is added, removed, or modified.
By tom
3 min read
SiteVitals now has an MCP server. Connect your account to Claude and ask questions about your websites in plain English. Which sites have issues? Any SSL certificates expiring? What did the last security scan find? Claude pulls live data from your SiteVitals account and answers directly, without you opening a single dashboard. Setup takes five minutes using Claude Code.
By tom
7 min read
Uptime monitoring tells you one thing: your server answered. It doesn't tell you whether your PageSpeed score has tanked since your last deployment, whether a security header was accidentally removed during a server migration, or whether your SSL certificate expires tomorrow. For most sites, uptime monitoring is where monitoring stops, leaving a significant blind spot. This post covers the five areas of site health that deteriorate over time without anybody noticing.
By tom
10 min read
Most website monitoring tools were built by engineers solving an abstract problem. SiteVitals was built by an agency solving a real one. Here's what makes us different.
By tom
3 min read
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By team
3 min read
Beyond Google, a new audience is crawling your site: AI. From GPTBot to Perplexity, AI agents make decisions based on signals traditional SEO tools ignore. I’ve rebuilt the SiteVitals SEO checker to bridge this gap—adding deep schema validation, AI crawler audits, and llms.txt support. Here is a look at the technical hurdles we hit, the three layers of validation we built, and why your site might pass a Google test but fail an AI readiness check.
By tom
9 min read
Most people assume their website is fine. And most of the time, they're right - in the same way that most of the time, the smoke alarm battery is still working.
By lisa
5 min read