What SiteGuardian actually does
Everything watching your website while you run your business.Eight different kinds of trouble. One quiet inbox.
SiteGuardian is a small piece of website uptime monitoring for small businesses. Add the URLs you care about and SiteGuardian runs eight kinds of health checks around the clock. Uptime, SSL, broken links, forms, checkout, performance, weekly reports, and multi-region probes. The minute one slips, you find out before your customers do.
Feature 01
Uptime monitoring for the sites you care about
SiteGuardian's website uptime monitoring for small businesses pings every URL you add every minute. And even tells you when one region sees your site as down while another says it's up. The second something stops answering, you get an email.
You find out before customers do
Every minute a small shop is down is a minute a visitor leaves without buying. SiteGuardian's website downtime alerts reach your inbox before any human ever sees the broken page.
One ping a minute, from multiple regions
A single probe can miss an outage that only breaks in one country or one network. SiteGuardian probes from several places at once, so a regional failure still surfaces the same minute.
Alerts you can act on, not dashboards to read
Each alert is a short note. The URL, the time, and what the probe saw. No charts, no triage queue, no AI concierge to consult. A line you can decide on in a breath.
Feature 02
SSL certificate expiry alerts
SiteGuardian warns you well before your SSL certificate expires. So the browser bar never turns red on a page you actually run.
Browsers punish the lapse
An expired SSL certificate turns your URL red and your search listings radioactive. SSL certificate expiry alerts give you weeks of warning so the renewal has time to happen.
Auto-renew forgets sometimes
Most hosts promise auto-renew. Many forget. A domain lapses, a credit card fails, a webhook stops. SiteGuardian's expiry check is the safety net that catches the auto-renew that didn't.
Every page is a checkout page
If a single form or login sits behind an expired cert, your storefront is functionally closed. SiteGuardian treats an SSL lapse as a downtime event. You'll get the same email you'd get for an outage.
Feature 03
A broken link checker for small business websites
SiteGuardian crawls the pages you list and emails you the moment it finds a link that no longer resolves. A 404, a redirect loop, a moved page that quietly went dark.
Google notices, customers notice
A single broken link on a popular page is enough for a visitor to bounce. A handful scattered across the site is enough for search engines to quietly demote you, page by page.
Sites change without anybody checking
A page gets renamed, a partner closes, a blog post gets deleted. And your sidebar reference goes dark with it. The broken link checker runs on a schedule so you don't have to remember.
Catch the 404 before a customer does
If your homepage links to a moved product page, that's a visitor lost. SiteGuardian's broken link alerts land in your inbox before anyone hits the page in anger.
Feature 04
Website form monitoring for the leads you cannot afford to lose
Contact forms, quote requests, lead-gen forms. They all sit on someone else's code, and SiteGuardian is the watcher that catches when one quietly stops doing its job.
A broken form is an invisible outage
Your site looks up. Your customers see the form. The form fails to submit on the back end. Nothing on your dashboard tips you off. And every lead you've ever generated is gone.
Quotations and bookings live on these forms
A small service business often books its jobs from one form. A silent failure there is more expensive than the homepage going down for an hour.
SiteGuardian tests submission end-to-end
It fills the form with a fake entry and waits for the success page. When the success page doesn't load, you get an email. And the lead you would have lost is one you can still save.
Feature 05
Checkout failure detection, end to end
SiteGuardian walks your checkout flow from the cart to the order-completed page and emails you the moment a step between them fails. A visitor's 'Pay' button stops being a black box.
Revenue-critical, not broadly visible
A checkout form that fails server-side looks fine to a developer and looks fine to a customer. Until they hit Pay and get back a polite 'something went wrong' that costs you the sale.
The Stripe outage you didn't see
Payment processors go down, payment plugins deprecate, webhooks stop firing. Checkout failure detection notices even when your homepage stays confidently green.
Catch payment drops before the bank statement
If your paid-count drops between yesterday and today, you want to know before the chargeback email arrives. SiteGuardian pings you the moment a checkout step stops working, not the moment the refunds begin.
Feature 06
A website performance monitoring tool that watches the trend
SiteGuardian tracks response time, time-to-first-byte, and the slow thresholds you set for each site, so a slow site never quietly becomes a worse one without you ever noticing.
Slow sites lose customers before they load
Every extra second of load time cuts conversion in half. Website performance monitoring keeps the trend visible. Not a one-off Lighthouse score, but the rolling reality of the site your visitors see today.
Catches regressions a redesign would hide
A theme update, a heavier plugin, an unoptimised hero image. Any of these can add half a second to every page load without throwing a single error. Slow alerts catch the slow creep before it compounds.
A threshold per site, not a threshold per tool
Your portfolio piece can take longer than your storefront. SiteGuardian lets you set the slow threshold per URL. And alert only when each site crosses its own line, not someone else's industry average.
Feature 07
Weekly website health reports, in your inbox
Every week, SiteGuardian sends you a short health report. Uptime, incidents, response times, broken-link counts, form pass rates. One page, the night before Monday morning.
Owners who run a small business forget to check
Weekly website health reports turn watching the dashboard into a habit that needs zero discipline. The report is already in your inbox when you sit down to start the week. You decide whether to read it.
Shows the trend, not the snapshot
A weekly report covers a week. The numbers tell a story the same-day alerts can't. Slow creep, repeat offenders, recovery time after the last incident, where the week was boring, where it wasn't.
A weekly brief for stakeholders who don't want one
If a partner, a co-founder, or a freelancer cares about your site's health, forward the weekly brief. They get the picture; you don't have to find the time to write it up yourself every Monday.
Feature 08
Multi-region monitoring. When one country sees what another misses
SiteGuardian probes each URL from several regions at once, so a CDN edge that’s broken in London but fine in Dallas still gets caught and still gets an email.
A single probe is a single point of view
If SiteGuardian only watched your site from one location, an outage that only broke in that region would quietly pass. Multi-region monitoring is the difference between 'your uptime is 100%' and 'your uptime is 100% in two places, 73% in the third.'
Customers aren’t all in one place
A US-based shop with European visitors benefits from a probe in Frankfurt. A UK shop benefits from a probe in Singapore. Multi-region coverage turns a regional outage into an actionable alert instead of an after-the-fact refund queue.
No additional setup
Multi-region monitoring is the default. Add a URL and SiteGuardian immediately probes it from several places. There is no extra step, no extra config, and no extra tier to gate it behind.
SiteGuardian at a glance
Ready when you are
Run a free health check first
Before you pick a tier, run the free URL audit on /audit. SiteGuardian runs a real initial report against your URL in under 30 seconds. Uptime, SSL, broken links, checkout, performance, SEO metadata, accessibility. And then offers to keep watching for free.