Know the moment a website goes down
Get notified the instant a site goes down — and again the moment it comes back up.
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 on the Pro plan. 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.
Set it up in three steps
Add an uptime monitor
Sign in with Google, click “+ Add monitor” and choose “Uptime (up/down)”.
Paste the URL
Add the address of the site you want to keep an eye on.
Choose how often
Every 6 hours or daily on Free, hourly on Starter, every 15 minutes on Pro. You’re alerted when it goes down and when it’s back.
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?
It depends on your plan, and you choose the frequency per monitor. Free: every 6 hours or daily. Starter: as often as hourly. Pro: as often as every 15 minutes.
Is Web Change Monitor free?
There is a free plan with no credit card required: 5 monitors, checked every 6 hours or daily (1 of them can be a dynamic, JavaScript-rendered page). If you need more, Starter ($4/month) gives you 10 monitors (2 dynamic) checked as often as hourly, and Pro ($8/month) gives you 25 monitors (5 dynamic) checked as often as every 15 minutes. Paid plans also save a screenshot of the page with every change, are billed monthly, and you can cancel anytime.