# Reports & Notifications

Tinylytics keeps you in the loop about your website's performance and health through automated email reports and instant alerts. This guide explains how to configure and manage these communications.

## Email Reports

Get a periodic summary of your website's traffic delivered straight to your inbox. This is a great way to keep a pulse on your project without needing to log in to the dashboard constantly.

### What's Inside?
The email report includes a snapshot of your site's performance for the reporting period:

-   **Total Hits**: How many times your site was visited (with unique count if enabled).
-   **Top Pages**: Your most popular content (up to 30 pages).
-   **Kudos by Page**: Pages that received kudos during the period (if kudos are enabled).

### Frequency
Reports are typically sent on a weekly basis, arriving every Monday. This gives you a fresh start to the week with insights from the previous 7 days.

### Manual Reports
Can't wait for Monday? You can trigger a report manually at any time:

1.  Navigate to your site's **Edit** tab.
2.  Look for the **Email Reports** section.
3.  Click **Send Report Now**.

## Uptime Alerts

If you have enabled [Uptime Monitoring](/docs/uptime_monitoring_guide), Tinylytics will send you immediate notifications for critical events.

### Types of Alerts
-   **Downtime**: Received instantly when your site stops responding (confirmed by multiple locations).
-   **Recovery**: Received when your site comes back online, including the total duration of the downtime.
-   **SSL Issues**: Warnings about expiring or invalid SSL certificates.

### Testing Alerts
To ensure you are receiving emails correctly, you can send test alerts from the dashboard:

1.  Go to your site's **Edit** tab and find the **Email Reports** section.
2.  Under **Uptime Monitoring Email Preferences**, look for the test buttons.
3.  Click **Test Down** or **Test Up** to simulate an event and verify your email setup.

## Content Monitoring Alerts

For subscribers using [Content Monitoring](/docs/content_monitoring_guide), Tinylytics sends notifications when issues are detected during a scan.

-   **Broken Links**: Alerts when internal or external links on your site break.
-   **Mixed Content**: Alerts when insecure resources are found on secure pages.

You can pause these emails if you are performing maintenance on your site to avoid cluttering your inbox.

## Managing Recipients

You can control who receives these reports and alerts. By default, the account owner's email is used, but you can add friends, colleagues or stakeholders.

1.  Navigate to your site's dashboard.
2.  Go to the **Settings** or **Edit** tab.
3.  Find the **Email Recipients** section.
4.  **Add Recipient**: Enter the email address you want to add.
5.  **Remove**: Click the trash icon next to an email to stop sending notifications to that address.

*Note: All recipients receive traffic reports. Critical alerts for a specific site currently go only to the account owner.*