# SiteGuardian > SiteGuardian is the website uptime monitor built for small businesses. It pings your site, checkout, contact forms and SSL. And emails you the second something breaks. SiteGuardian ships one paid product — a one-time $299 Lifetime deal — and a free, public URL audit. This file is a flat, machine-readable index of every public page on the site, grouped by topic. Crawlers (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Anthropic, CCBot, Google-Extended) and operator tooling can ingest the whole structure in one fetch. URLs below are root-relative (`/pricing`, `/audit`, etc.) so they resolve identically regardless of the deploy origin. Advertised on every page via `` in ``. Canonical sitemap: `/sitemap.xml`. Crawl policy: `/robots.txt`. ## Home - [Home](/): SiteGuardian — uptime monitor built for small businesses. Pings your site, checkout, forms and SSL, and emails you the second something breaks. - [Contact](/contact): Reach the SiteGuardian team with a short message — server-routed email via the company inbox. ## Pricing - [Pricing](/pricing): One paid Lifetime tier ($299 once) plus monthly Starter ($19/mo) and Pro ($39/mo). Lifetime watches one site with up to 50 URLs forever; 30-day money-back guarantee. ## Free URL Audit - [Free URL Audit](/audit): Run a free URL audit in 30 seconds — uptime, SSL, broken links, forms, checkout, performance, SEO, and accessibility. No signup needed. - [Free Website Health Check](/website-health-check): One-shot free initial report on any site — covers the same eight checks as `/audit`, no account required. ## Free Tools - [Free tools](/tools): The cluster hub for the four free single-shot utilities — uptime, SSL, page speed, and broken-link scan. - [Free uptime check](/tools/uptime-check): Paste a URL, see if it is down right now. No signup. - [Free SSL checker](/tools/ssl-checker): Inspect a domain's certificate, expiry, issuer, and chain. No signup. - [Free page speed test](/tools/page-speed): Quick Lighthouse-style performance read on any URL. No signup. - [Free broken link scanner](/tools/broken-links): Crawl a page and list every outbound link returning 4xx or 5xx. No signup. ## Free forever-watching site - [Free forever-watching site](/free-website-monitor): One URL + one email = a forever-watched site. Top-of-funnel single-shot surface, no signup. ## Features - [Features overview](/features): SiteGuardian's monitoring surfaces — uptime, SSL, broken-link, form-failure, checkout-failure, page speed, plus the free audit and the free single-shot tools. Every surface works on Shopify, WooCommerce, WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Webflow, BigCommerce, Carrd, Framer, and any other site that answers an HTTPS request. - [Uptime monitoring](/features/uptime-monitoring): Multi-region HTTP/HTTPS probes on a tight cadence — every minute on Pro, every five on Starter and Lifetime — and one loud email per outage plus one short recovery email. Best for small businesses that need to know the minute a site, storefront, or checkout endpoint stops answering — and that a single CDN edge blip will not falsely trip the inbox. - [SSL monitoring](/features/ssl-monitoring): Daily cert-path check that reads the certificate chain the way a browser would and alerts at 90 / 30 / 7 / 1 days out from expiry. Best for any site with HTTPS where the host's "renewed" status disagreed with the actual cert path — the silent auto-renew failure that turns the browser bar red on a Tuesday morning. - [Broken link checking](/features/broken-link-checking): Daily crawl of every page you add, follows redirects up to a safe hop count, and surfaces 404s, redirect loops, and chains that end at a dead URL. Best for resource pages, partner directories, footers, and any link-heavy surface where a single partner rename quietly demotes SEO. - [Form failure detection](/features/form-failure-detection): Test-submit each form on a daily cadence using junk-name values the CRM is configured to ignore, then wait for the success page the form lands on. Best for contact, quote-request, lead-gen, and booking forms where a webhook URL changes or an SMTP credential rotates without anyone noticing. - [Checkout failure detection](/features/checkout-failure-detection): Walk the full Shopify /checkout or WooCommerce /cart → /checkout → /thank-you flow with a tight slow-threshold on /checkout, multi-region. Best for storefronts where a payment-plugin update silently breaks the cart-to-checkout transition before either page fails in isolation. - [Page speed monitoring](/features/page-speed-monitoring): Sequential, multi-region TTFB and response-time probes per URL with a slow threshold you set per URL. Best for a hero or /checkout page where a half-second regression across days signals a heavier plugin or an unoptimised image before conversion takes the hit. ## Integrations - [BigCommerce](/integrations/bigcommerce): SiteGuardian for BigCommerce — probe the storefront, /cart, /checkout, and category URLs once a minute; multi-region minutely probing, no BigCommerce app required. - [Carrd](/integrations/carrd): SiteGuardian for Carrd — watch the single one-page URL that does the whole job, no Carrd widget or hookup required. - [Framer](/integrations/framer): SiteGuardian for Framer — probe the modern site-builder URL from the visitor's view, with optional form-endpoint probe on contact-form flows. - [GoDaddy](/integrations/godaddy): SiteGuardian for GoDaddy sites — watch the home page, /contact, and /blog every minute; catches renewal lapses, DNS mis-points, and silent SSL failures GoDaddy's dashboard does not always surface. - [Shopify](/integrations/shopify): SiteGuardian for Shopify — probe the storefront, /cart, /checkout, and admin once a minute; one loud email the second any of them stops answering. No Shopify app required. - [Squarespace](/integrations/squarespace): SiteGuardian for Squarespace — watch the site you built on a Sunday afternoon, no Squarespace integration required. - [Webflow](/integrations/webflow): SiteGuardian for Webflow — probe the front-end URL a visitor opens every minute, on multi-region infrastructure so a Fastly blip does not falsely trip. - [Wix](/integrations/wix): SiteGuardian for Wix — watch any Wix URL (custom domain or `.wixsite.com` subdomain), no Wix app required. - [WooCommerce](/integrations/woocommerce): SiteGuardian for WooCommerce — probe the storefront, /cart, /checkout, /my-account; tight 1.5-second slow-threshold on /checkout, no WordPress plugin required. - [WordPress](/integrations/wordpress): SiteGuardian for WordPress — probe the homepage, /wp-admin, /wp-login.php, and any post URL once a minute; no WordPress plugin required. ## Built for - [Built for Shopify](/for/shopify): SiteGuardian for single-store Shopify merchants. Probe the storefront, /cart, and /checkout from one URL list with a tight slow-threshold on /checkout and an SSL cert watch on /checkout. - [Built for WordPress](/for/wordpress): SiteGuardian for single-site WordPress. Probe the homepage, /wp-admin, /login, and any post URL with a broken-link check weekly and an SSL cert watch daily. ## Compare - [All comparisons](/vs/all): A single decision matrix across all fourteen competitors, grouped by free-tier / paid-flat-bill / enterprise / agency. - [Compare SiteGuardian](/vs): The SiteGuardian vs hub — fourteen alternatives, side by side, in one decision matrix. - [vs Better Stack](/vs/better-stack): SiteGuardian vs Better Stack — Better Stack is the incident-response platform for engineering teams; SiteGuardian is the small-shop uptime monitor. - [vs Better Stack (new)](/vs/betterstack): SiteGuardian vs Better Stack — same chapter, refreshed copy. Better Stack ships uptime, status pages, and on-call rotations; SiteGuardian adds a broken-link crawler, checkout-path probe, and form-path probe. - [vs Better Uptime](/vs/betteruptime): SiteGuardian vs Better Uptime — Better Uptime is the incident-response oriented scheduler. - [vs Hetrixtools](/vs/hetrixtools): SiteGuardian vs Hetrixtools — HetrixTools is freemium contact-form-friendly; SiteGuardian is paid-lifetime quiet-by-default. - [vs Hyperping](/vs/hyperping): SiteGuardian vs Hyperping — Hyperping is the status-page-leaning SMB monitor. - [vs ManageEngine](/vs/manageengine): SiteGuardian vs ManageEngine — ManageEngine is enterprise IT-monitoring Zoho-suite; SiteGuardian is SMB uptime. - [vs Montastic](/vs/montastic): SiteGuardian vs Montastic — Montastic is the free-tier simple-check; SiteGuardian is paid-lifetime richer. - [vs Oh Dear](/vs/oh-dear): SiteGuardian vs Oh Dear — Oh Dear is a Belgian uptime + broken-link SBAB product; SiteGuardian is one-tier lifetime. - [vs Pingdom](/vs/pingdom): SiteGuardian vs Pingdom — SolarWinds-owned enterprise platform pitched at DevOps; SiteGuardian is $299 lifetime for SMB. - [vs Pulsetic](/vs/pulsetic): SiteGuardian vs Pulsetic — Pulsetic is the status-page-oriented SMB monitor. - [vs Site24x7](/vs/site24x7): SiteGuardian vs Site24x7 — Site24x7 is Zoho's full-stack enterprise monitor; SiteGuardian is SMB uptime. - [vs StatusCake](/vs/statuscake): SiteGuardian vs StatusCake — StatusCake is a long-running freemium incumbent; SiteGuardian is focused SMB lifetime. - [vs Updown](/vs/updown): SiteGuardian vs Updown.io — Updown is the developer-flat-bill monitor; SiteGuardian is merchant-flat-bill. - [vs Uptime.com](/vs/uptime-com): SiteGuardian vs Uptime.com — Uptime.com is enterprise SLA-grade; SiteGuardian is SMB lifetime. - [vs UptimeRobot](/vs/uptime-robot): SiteGuardian vs UptimeRobot — SiteGuardian is $299 lifetime for 50 URLs; UptimeRobot is freemium with check frequency capped at one minute on the paid tier. ## Vertical — for each profession - [For agencies](/website-monitoring-for-agencies): SiteGuardian for web agencies — one dashboard, every client site watched, on the same paid-lifetime pricing. - [For barbers](/website-monitoring-for-barbers): SiteGuardian for barbershop sites — watch the home page, /booking, and the contact form on the cadence that catches a Tuesday-afternoon outage before the next chair. - [For dentists](/website-monitoring-for-dentists): SiteGuardian for dental practice sites — watch the home page, /contact, the booking widget URL, on a minutely cadence with a quiet inbox. - [For gyms](/website-monitoring-for-gyms): SiteGuardian for gym studio sites — watch the home page, /schedule, /join, /contact; SSL expiry watch ships on every plan. - [For photographers](/website-monitoring-for-photographers): SiteGuardian for photographer portfolio sites — watch the home page, /portfolio, the /contact /booking widget on a cadence tuned for image-heavy pages. - [For real-estate agents](/website-monitoring-for-real-estate-agents): SiteGuardian for agent sites — watch the home page, /listings, /contact on a minutely cadence with a tight 1.5-second slow-threshold. - [For restaurants](/website-monitoring-for-restaurants): SiteGuardian for restaurant sites — watch the home page, /menu, /reservations, /order on the cadence that catches a Tuesday-evening outage before the rush. - [For SaaS tools](/website-monitoring-for-saas-tools): SiteGuardian for SaaS marketing sites — watch the home page, /pricing, /signup, /docs on multi-region probes with a tight slow-threshold on /signup. ## Topic SEO landing pages - [BigCommerce monitor](/bigcommerce-monitor): SiteGuardian's top-of-funnel BigCommerce landing — watch the BigCommerce storefront that runs overnight, with multi-region minutely probing and no BigCommerce app required. - [Broken link monitor](/broken-link-monitor): Weekly crawler for outbound links on the URL list, with one email per 4xx / 5xx / redirect-loop discovery. - [Broken link monitoring](/broken-link-monitoring): The deep-dive on broken-link crawling — what the check finds, the redirect chains it walks, and the cadence a small-shop site runs on. - [Checkout failure monitoring](/checkout-failure-monitoring): The deep-dive on detecting the day a step between /cart and /thank-you stops working on a Shopify or WooCommerce storefront. - [Checkout monitoring](/checkout-monitoring): Tight slow-threshold probes on /checkout URLs on Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, and every major ecommerce stack; catches cart pages that silently got slow between Lighthouse runs. - [Contact form monitoring](/contact-form-monitoring): The shape of contact-form failure — the submission that returns 200 and never reaches the inbox — and how a probe exposes it. - [Core Web Vitals monitoring](/core-web-vitals-monitoring): Continuous LCP / CLS / INP tracking against Google's Core Web Vitals thresholds, with one alert per regression. - [DNS monitoring](/dns-monitoring): Daily DNS-lookup probe that catches the migration drift, the registrar lockout, and the apex record that quietly lost resolution hours before the registrar email arrives. - [Ecommerce checkout monitor](/ecommerce-checkout-monitor): The dedicated leaf for checkout availability on a storefront — the URL the operator adds first, the failure modes it catches, and where the loudest risk sits. - [Form failure monitoring](/form-failure-monitoring): The deep-dive on form-failure detection — test-submit each form with junk-name values, wait for the success page, fire one short email if it stops loading. - [Framer monitor](/framer-monitor): SiteGuardian's top-of-funnel Framer landing — watch the modern site-builder URL from the visitor's view, no platform hookup required. - [Magento monitor](/magento-monitor): SiteGuardian's top-of-funnel Magento landing — watch the Magento storefront, /checkout, and category pages with multi-region minutely probing. - [Online store uptime](/online-store-uptime): The umbrella leaf for storefront uptime monitoring — every URL in the funnel, the cadence to probe each, and the alert shape per outage. - [Shopify monitor](/shopify-monitor): SiteGuardian's top-of-funnel Shopify landing — the best uptime monitor for Shopify stores, pings storefront / /cart / /checkout once a minute. - [Small business website monitor](/small-business-website-monitor): The product surface built for one-operator shops — one URL, one email, one alert cadence tuned for the founder-on-the-floor. - [Squarespace monitor](/squarespace-monitor): SiteGuardian's top-of-funnel Squarespace landing — watch the Squarespace URL visitors actually type, one-minute cadence, one loud email. - [SSL expiry monitor](/ssl-expiry-monitor): Daily cert-path check with email alerts at 90 / 30 / 7 / 1 days before expiry — best for the silent Let's Encrypt / DigiCert / Sectigo / ZeroSSL failure. - [SSL expiry monitoring](/ssl-expiry-monitoring): The deep-dive on SSL certificate monitoring — what the cert-path probe reads, how the alert cadence fires, and where the silent auto-renew failure shows. - [Webflow agencies](/webflow-agency-monitor): SiteGuardian for Webflow agencies — one dashboard, every client site watched, on the same paid-lifetime pricing. - [Webflow monitor](/webflow-monitor): SiteGuardian's top-of-funnel Webflow landing — multi-region probing so a Fastly blip does not falsely trip the alert. - [Wix monitor](/wix-monitor): SiteGuardian's top-of-funnel Wix landing — watch the Wix site from the visitor's perspective; no Wix app or OAuth required. - [WooCommerce monitor](/woocommerce-monitor): SiteGuardian's top-of-funnel WooCommerce landing — watch the WooCommerce storefront, /cart, /checkout; tight 1.5-second slow-thresholds on /checkout. - [WordPress monitor](/wordpress-monitor): SiteGuardian's top-of-funnel WordPress landing — watch your WordPress homepage, /wp-admin and any post URL; find out the same minute a plugin update breaks the front-end. ## Blog - [Blog index](/blog): Plain-spoken field notes on website monitoring, downtime cost, SSL, and uptime for small business. - [Automated website maintenance tool — what it actually does](/blog/automated-website-maintenance-tool): What an "automated maintenance tool" really means on a small-business site — the four checks it has to run, the cadence it has to run them on, and which ones a paid monitor covers. - [Best website monitoring tools for small business owners, honestly](/blog/best-website-monitoring-tools-for-small-business-owners): An honest comparison of SiteGuardian, UptimeRobot, Pingdom, Better Stack and the rest of the field, against the four pieces a small shop actually needs. - [How to keep your small business website up](/blog/how-to-keep-your-small-business-website-up): The four things to keep on top of (uptime, SSL, contact form, broken links), the cadence to check each, and the smallest tool that covers all four. - [Is my website down right now?](/blog/is-my-website-down-right-now): The plain-English version of checking your own URL — what "down" means, how each check works, and which one tells you the truth today. - [Monitoring SSL certificate expiry for small business](/blog/monitoring-ssl-certificate-expiry-small-business): The shape of an SSL-expiry incident on a small-business site, the cadence to catch it, and what a probe does that the host dashboard misses. - [Website monitoring for small businesses, in plain terms](/blog/website-monitoring-for-small-businesses): The boring safeguard — what it does, when it fires, who needs one. - [What downtime actually costs a small business, and what changes](/blog/website-downtime-cost-small-business): The math behind an hour of downtime — ad spend lost, customers turned away, repeat customer churn. ## Research - [Research](/research): An index of SiteGuardian's published research and comparison pieces — uptime, SSL, broken links, checkout, and what downtime actually costs a small shop. Each entry links out to the full piece. - [Website health research](/website-health-research): Curated data on website downtime, SSL certificate failures, broken outbound links, and Core Web Vitals — designed to be cited from third-party articles. Houses the figures SiteGuardian's pillar pages point at. ## Pillar hubs - [Website monitoring](/website-monitoring): The namespace-anchor pillar gateway at the top of SiteGuardian's capability cluster — links out to the uptime / SSL / forms / checkout / broken-links / speed deep pages. - [Website monitoring for small business](/website-monitoring-for-small-business): The SMB umbrella — uptime, SSL, contact forms, broken links, and page speed, all on one product map. - [Ecommerce uptime monitoring](/ecommerce-uptime-monitoring): The ecommerce umbrella — Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Wix, Squarespace, and the cart-page failure modes that cost sales. ## Legal - [Terms of service](/legal/terms): Plain-English Terms — what SiteGuardian does, what you agree to, what the refund policy is. - [Privacy policy](/legal/privacy): What SiteGuardian stores about you and your monitored URLs, who sees it, and how to delete it. - [Refund policy](/legal/refunds): 30-day money-back guarantee on every paid Lifetime plan. No questions asked. - [Cookie policy](/legal/cookies): The cookies SiteGuardian sets, third-party cookies (none on the free audit, ad-tracking only on the marketing site), and how to clear them.