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SiteGuardian for Squarespace. Watch the site you built on a Sunday afternoon.

Squarespace is the platform a lot of small studios and one-person shops use to ship a clean site quickly. SiteGuardian watches the front-end URL once a minute and emails you the second it stops answering.

  • Probe your Squarespace URL from the visitor’s perspective, every minute.
  • No Squarespace integration required; works on any front-end URL.
  • Custom slow threshold per URL. Tight on the homepage, looser on /journal.
  • SSL certificate expiry watcher on every plan.
  • Quiet inbox by default; one loud email per outage.

What you get

What you actually get on Squarespace.

Six concrete platform-specific things, in plain English. The boring safeguard reads the same on every site; the path to it does not.

  1. No Squarespace integration required

    SiteGuardian pings your Squarespace URL the way a visitor’s browser would. There is no Squarespace developer hookup, no API key, no admin scope.

  2. Watches the URL your studio prints on the business card

    Add the custom domain (https://www.example.com), the /about, the /contact, the /journal index. SiteGuardian pings each independently.

  3. Custom slow thresholds per URL

    Squarespace templates are image-heavy; pick a loose threshold on /journal and a tight one on the hero. SiteGuardian treats each URL independently.

  4. SSL certificate expiry watcher

    Squarespace handles renewal; the renewal can fail silently. SiteGuardian pings the cert path daily and tells you when something is approaching expiry.

  5. Multi-region probing

    Squarespace sites sit on a managed CDN. SiteGuardian probes from multiple regions so a single-region blip does not falsely trip the alert.

  6. Quiet inbox by default

    One loud email per outage. One recovery email per come-back. That is the entire sound.

How it works

Setup, in three beats.

  1. Step 01

    Add your Squarespace URL

    Paste the home page of the site (https://www.example.com). Set the slow threshold in plain English. SiteGuardian starts probing inside the next minute.

  2. Step 02

    Add the URLs that send visitors

    /, /about, /contact, and the /journal index are the obvious four. Add landing pages from your studio’s marketing.

  3. Step 03

    Let SiteGuardian handle the watch

    The boring safeguard passes its own test: set up once, the dashboard stays green, the inbox stays quiet. The first time something really stops answering, you’ll get one short email. Site, time, what it saw.

What the alert actually says

One email. One URL. One timestamp.

Your URL https://www.example.com answered with HTTP 503 at 11:47 UTC. The probe will retry in 60 seconds.
Squarespace alert · SiteGuardian default

Frequently asked

The Squarespace-specific questions.

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Try it

Watch your Squarespace site while you do other things.

Starter is $19 a month. One site, ten URLs, every-five-minute checks. Pro is $39 a month. Three sites, fifty URLs, every-minute checks. Lifetime is $299 paid once and stays yours with every future update included.

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