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Guide to Content Monitoring

What is Content Monitoring?

Content Monitoring is a feature that helps you maintain the quality and security of your website by automatically checking for common issues. Tinylytics scans your site to identify:

  • Broken Links: Links that lead to 404 pages or other error states. These can frustrate visitors and negatively impact your SEO rankings.
  • Mixed Content: Resources (such as images, scripts, or stylesheets) that are loaded over an insecure HTTP connection on a secure HTTPS page. This can compromise the security of your site and erode user trust.

How It Works

Once enabled, Tinylytics acts as a health check for your website’s content.

  1. Crawling: The system scans the pages on your site.
  2. Validation: It verifies that links return a successful response (HTTP 200 OK) and that all resources are loaded securely via HTTPS.
  3. Reporting: Issues are cataloged in your dashboard, categorized by type (Broken Link or Mixed Content).

Setting Up Content Monitoring

Content Monitoring is a premium feature available for subscribed users.

  1. Log in to your Tinylytics account and select your site.
  2. Navigate to the Content tab in the dashboard.
  3. Click the Enable Content Checking button.

The system will immediately queue an initial check of your site. Depending on the size of your website, this process may take a few minutes to complete.

Managing Issues

The Content Dashboard provides a comprehensive list of all checks performed on your site.

Issue Types

  • ✓ All good: The link or resource is accessible and secure.
  • ⚠ Broken link: The URL returned an error code (e.g., 404 Not Found, 500 Server Error).
  • ⚠ Mixed content: An insecure resource (http://) was detected on a secure page (https://).

Taking Action

You have several tools available to manage reported issues:

  • Check specific URL: If you have fixed an issue or want to verify a specific page immediately, use the “Check specific URL” form to trigger a targeted scan.
  • Ignore: If a reported issue is a false positive or something you intentionally want to keep (e.g., a link you know is working but returns a non-standard code), you can Ignore it. Ignored items move to a separate list and will not trigger future alerts. You can un-ignore these items at any time.
  • Check All: You can manually trigger a full site scan at any time using the “Check All Content” button.

Notifications

Tinylytics keeps you informed about the health of your content.

  • Email Alerts: By default, you will receive email notifications when new issues are detected during a scan.
  • Pausing Emails: If you are actively working on your site and expect temporary errors, you can pause email notifications for a specific duration. This prevents your inbox from being flooded while you perform maintenance.
  • Settings: You can toggle content check email notifications on or off entirely within the Content tab settings.

Best Practices

  • Regular Reviews: Even with automated checking, it is good practice to review the Content tab periodically to catch issues that may not trigger critical alerts.
  • Fix Mixed Content: Modern browsers often block mixed content, meaning your images or styles might not load for visitors. ensure all your internal assets are referenced via https://.
  • Clean up Broken Links: Removing or updating dead links improves the user experience and ensures search engines can properly index your site.