Content Monitoring

Today I am happy to announce content monitoring. The content monitor checks for broken links or mixed content (un-secure content on a secure site) for your own website and even tries any external links to see if they work. Super useful if you run a blog or small company.

Content Monitor Dashboard showing an overview of broken and verified links, and other statuses.

It's designed to visit your website in the background, go through and check every link it can find and see if it's broken for some reason, every 12 to 24 hours — it'll pick it's own random time.

When the content monitor finds any issues, it will email you or you can visit the content dashboard to see the current status. It's super easy to ignore some of these also when you know that they are working (for example some links will stop "bots" from visiting). In addition to this, it'll do a best effort to point out where to find the issue. Sometimes issues can arise in code and you may have an issue within the head element of you HTML — this was a side effect of implementing this, and I love it, as it also checks for any other resources and scripts used throughout.

Each individual issue can be checked by itself or you can go ahead and re-check the whole lot once you've fixed the issues at hand. In addition to this you can always run the full check manually if you need to.

This is available for all paid subscribers today as early preview — please do let me know any edge cases and I will look into it for you. It's early days and there is more I'd like to do here of course, so this is step 1 out of 4.

— Vincent ✌️❤️