Monitor public page changes

Page Change Monitoring checks eligible public pages each week and records material changes while suppressing unchanged or noisy observations. It can watch an owned page or a page on a confirmed competitor origin, and it pauses rather than deleting history when the monthly allowance is exhausted.

Before you start

• An Agency account, an added site, and an eligible public HTTP or HTTPS page.
• A confirmed competitor profile before you can monitor a competitor page.

Follow these steps

1. 1

   Open Monitoring

   Choose a site, open Content, and select Monitoring. The page shows existing monitor status, active-slot use, and monthly checks.

2. 2

   Choose the target type

   Select an owned page or a confirmed competitor. A competitor monitor remains bound to the chosen profile and cannot become an arbitrary off-origin crawl.

3. 3

   Enter the public page

   Enter the owned URL, or select a competitor and confirm the page on its origin. The server rejects unsafe, private, or ineligible targets.

4. 4

   Review meters and create

   Check active slots and remaining monthly checks, then create the monitor. The cadence is fixed weekly in the shipped UI and is displayed before confirmation.

5. 5

   Choose notifications and read changes

   Set the material-change email preference and open a monitor's feed. The first observation establishes a baseline; later material events identify the recorded reason.

6. 6

   Manage the lifecycle

   Pause a monitor when you do not want checks, resume it when eligible, or remove it deliberately. A cap-paused monitor keeps its history and can recover after capacity returns.

What you get

• A weekly baseline and material-change feed for each eligible target.
• Separate active, user-paused, cap-paused, and error states.
• An optional notification path that preserves the stored feed.

Common questions

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