Know the moment a website goes down
A site being unreachable — yours or one you depend on — often goes unnoticed for hours unless someone happens to visit it while it’s down. Checking manually isn’t practical, and most uptime tools are built for infrastructure teams monitoring entire fleets of servers, not someone who just wants to know if one page is reachable.
Add a monitor in uptime mode instead of content-tracking mode, and Web Change Monitor checks that the page loads successfully on your schedule — as often as every 15 minutes. A single failed check won’t trigger a false alarm — we wait for two in a row to rule out a brief blip — but only one successful check is needed to confirm it’s back, so recovery is reported as fast as possible, by email, Slack, Discord, or webhook.
How to set it up
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Sign in with your Google account — no password to create.
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Click "+ Add monitor" and choose "Uptime (up/down)".
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Paste the URL of the website you want to watch for downtime.
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Choose how often to check — from every 15 minutes to once a day.
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Get notified the moment it goes down, and again the moment it’s back up.
Frequently asked questions
What is uptime monitoring mode?
Instead of tracking a page’s content, uptime mode just checks that a site is reachable — and alerts you the moment it goes down, then again when it recovers. Choose it when you add a monitor by clicking "+ Add monitor" and selecting "Uptime (up/down)" instead of "Content changes." The mode is set once at creation and can’t be switched later, since the two track completely different histories.
How does uptime monitoring detect downtime?
On your chosen schedule, we try to load the page. A single failed check doesn’t trigger an alert — we wait for two failures in a row to rule out a brief network blip — but we only need one successful check to confirm it’s back up, so recovery is reported as fast as possible.
How will I be notified when something changes?
By email by default — and you can also connect Slack, Discord, or any custom webhook from your account settings, then choose per monitor which channels to use. Every notification shows what changed — removed text struck through, new text highlighted — so most of the time you won’t even need to open the dashboard.
How often can a page be checked?
You choose the frequency per URL: every 15 minutes, every 30 minutes, hourly, every 6 hours, or daily.
Is Web Change Monitor free?
Yes. You can monitor up to 5 URLs at no cost, with no credit card required.
Other use cases
Competitor price tracking
Get an email the moment a competitor drops (or raises) a price, so you can react immediately instead of checking manually.
Job & internship alerts
Watch a careers page and be first to know when a new role is posted, before it shows up on job boards.
Restock & availability alerts
Track a sold-out product page and get notified the instant it’s back in stock.
Exam & application results
Stop refreshing a results or admissions page — we’ll email you the moment it updates.
Policy & terms changes
Keep an eye on a vendor’s terms of service, privacy policy, or pricing page for silent changes.
Real estate & rental listings
Monitor a listings page for new properties or price changes in a market that moves fast.