Website monitoring / beyond the response code
What is website monitoring—and what should you check?
Pulse combines straightforward website uptime monitoring with content checks and real browser journeys—so you can see whether the site is online, whether it works, and where a customer gets stuck.
Choose checks around what your customers need to do. Availability, browser interactions and completed transactions answer different questions.
[ The broader answer ]
What is website monitoring?
Website monitoring is the regular, automated checking of a website’s availability and behavior. At its simplest, it asks a server for a page and records whether the response arrived. That is useful. It is also only the first layer.
A business website can return a successful response while a booking widget fails to load, a product cannot be added to the cart, or a contact form quietly stops working. Pulse continues the check into the customer-facing experience, using the level of monitoring your website needs.
Pulse Monitor. Notice. Rectify.
What Pulse
can check.
01
Availability
Regular HTTP checks reveal when important pages become unavailable or return an unexpected response.
02
Website health
Certificate, domain and expected-content checks catch common failures before they become browser warnings or missing pages.
03
Functionality
A real browser can load JavaScript, interact with the interface and confirm that dynamic elements actually appear.
04
Customer journeys
Pulse follows commercially important paths such as booking, inquiry and checkout flows—not merely the homepage.
Three layers One clearer answer
Begin simply.
Go deeper where it matters.
01 / monitor
Is it online?
Website availability, SSL, domain and expected content.
02 / test
Does it work?
Real-browser interaction with the customer-facing journey.
03 / verify
Did it succeed?
Controlled transaction and downstream confirmation. Coming soon.
The distinction
A green status is useful. A working customer journey is useful too.
Pulse does not replace ordinary uptime monitoring; it builds on it. Start with the inexpensive essentials, then use browser journeys where a broken interaction would cost bookings, inquiries or sales.
Useful answers Without the jargon
Questions about
website monitoring.
How is Pulse different from an uptime monitor?[+]
An uptime monitor usually checks whether a URL responds. Pulse can also verify expected page content and use a real browser to check JavaScript-powered customer journeys.
How often does Pulse check a website?[+]
Free monitoring runs one basic check every 12 hours. Paid plans typically run important checks around 12 times per day—approximately every two hours. The exact schedule and scope are agreed before setup.
What kinds of websites can Pulse monitor?[+]
Pulse is intended for business websites where inquiries, bookings or online sales matter, including service businesses, ecommerce stores and agency-managed websites.
Do I need to configure technical scripts?[+]
No. Describe the customer action that matters and Pulse can handle the browser-journey implementation for you.
Choose the check that answers your question
A brochure page needs to respond and contain the expected information. An interactive website also needs its forms, widgets and buttons checked. A completed order or delivered inquiry requires a further verification step.
- Essential: scheduled availability, SSL, domain and expected-content checks.
- Browser: agreed interaction steps such as selecting a service or adding a product to a cart.
- Transaction: planned controlled submissions and confirmation checks; not available today.
No scripts to learn.
Tell us what must
keep working.
Choose checks around what your customers need to do. Availability, browser interactions and completed transactions answer different questions.