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.
• Spelling Mistakes (Ultra): Optional AI-powered spell checking that reviews visible page text during content scans and flags likely typos.

How It Works

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

1. Crawling: The system crawls pages on your site (up to 50 pages, two levels deep from your start URL or root path).
2. Validation: It verifies that links return a successful response and that resources on HTTPS pages are loaded securely via HTTPS.
3. Reporting: Issues are cataloged in your dashboard, categorized by type (Broken Link, Mixed Content, or Spelling when enabled).
4. Scheduling: Your first scan starts immediately when you enable monitoring. Ongoing checks run automatically on a daily cadence.

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 Enable content monitoring.

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.

If your site lives in a subdirectory (for example /blog), you can optionally set a root path so Tinylytics only checks that section and anything below it.

You can also list ignore paths under Scan options (for example /tags or /blog/admin) so same-host pages under those paths are skipped during crawls and checks. Use one path per line.

Spell Checking (Ultra)

Ultra users can enable Spell checking in Content Monitoring settings. When enabled, Tinylytics reviews visible page text from crawled pages using AI and flags likely spelling mistakes in the dashboard and content alert emails.

• Spell checking is in early preview and may change as detection improves.
• Spell checking is opt-in and runs during the same content scans as link checks.
• You can ignore false positives (for example brand names or technical terms).
• English page copy works best for now.

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://).
• ⚠ Spelling: A likely typo was found in visible page text (Ultra spell checking only).

Taking Action

You have several tools available to manage reported issues:

• Re-check: Use the Re-check button on an individual issue to verify a specific link immediately after you fix it.
• 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 now: Trigger a full site scan at any time from Content Settings.

Notifications

Tinylytics keeps you informed about the health of your content.

• Email Alerts: By default, you will receive email notifications from [email protected] when new issues are detected during a scan (at most once per 24 hours while issues remain open).
• 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 Content 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 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.