Site integrity monitoring
A domain expires and takes your email with it. A security certificate (the padlock in the browser) lapses and browsers start warning visitors away. An image or a bit of code your site relies on stops loading. None of it needs a hack, a server failure or a bad update, just something being missed. SiteVitals tells you about expiries well before the deadline, and about anything broken as soon as it's spotted.
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What continuous monitoring covers
SiteVitals keeps watch over the dependencies and administrative details that sit outside your codebase - often managed by different people and renewed on different schedules.
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An expired or misconfigured certificate can replace your website with a browser warning. SiteVitals checks validity, expiry and certificate-chain health before it becomes visible to visitors.
The technical bit
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When a domain expires your website can disappear and email can stop with it. Long renewal cycles make domains surprisingly easy to forget.
The technical bit
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Images, scripts, stylesheets and fonts can fail without taking the whole page offline. The result is often a site which technically loads but visibly looks or behaves incorrectly.
The technical bit
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A secure page can still request an insecure resource. Browsers may block it or downgrade trust in the page even though the main certificate itself is valid.
The technical bit
A different kind of problem
When most people think about website failures, they think about hacks, crashes, or bad deployments. But some of the most disruptive - and most avoidable - outages happen for entirely different reasons. No malicious intent. No technical fault. Just something that was set up years ago, set to expire, and quietly forgotten.
Just some of the real life stories which have prompted this section:
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A client almost lost a domain they’d had for 20 years because their credit card expired and the messages about it went to an email address no one checked anymore.
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Secure certificates usually auto-renew but if they don’t, Google and browsers start telling people your website is insecure.
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A restaurant chain rang us to say their site was broken. It was because their credit card had expired and so their font license had been revoked. But it had taken them quite a while to notice things were broken and they had no idea why.
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A busy website did a platform migration and an image stopped showing because the path to the CDN changed. The broken image tag sat on the homepage for weeks. No error logs, no alerts - just a white rectangle where the pic used to be.
SiteVitals monitors the administrative pieces of your site - the ones that sit outside your codebase, often managed by different people, and rarely checked between renewals. When something starts edging towards a problem, you get an early warning rather than an emergency.
“We nearly watched a client lose a domain they had owned for 20 years. The renewal email had gone to an old address. It was not the first time we had seen that happen - which is why this feature exists.”
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