Get an email when your website breaks
Your website goes down at two in the morning. Who finds out first? You do. A short narrated walkthrough using an example report: Open Alerts, Check this website, Email me alerts, Recent alerts.
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Before you start
- A business with its website saved in Connections.
- For email alerts: a verified sign-in email. For traffic-drop alerts: Search Console connected.
Set it up, step by step
- Choose the business at the top of the menu and open Alerts (under Your website).
- Tick Check this website. The hourly up-check and daily checks start within the hour.
- Tick Email me alerts to get an email when something needs attention. It goes to your verified sign-in email.
- Optional: choose Check now to run every check straight away and set a starting point.
In the dashboard menu: Your website → Alerts.
How to use it
Recent alerts lists the last 30 alerts with the date and whether an email was sent. Each one says what changed and where to look next.
Turn alerts on for each business you want checked. Untick Check this website to stop them at any time.
What the results mean
Website not loading: your home page failed two checks an hour apart. Back up: it loads again.
Google clicks dropped: last 7 days were at least 40% below the 7 days before (only when the week before had 20 or more clicks).
Pages dropped out of Google: your saved Site indexing scan shows pages that were indexed and now aren’t.
Speed score fell: Google’s phone speed score dropped 15 points or more since the last weekly test. Website health fell: the home-page check dropped 15 points or a new serious problem appeared.
Checks can be delayed and can miss problems. They are a helpful early warning, not a replacement for your web host’s own monitoring.
If something goes wrong
Email me alerts can’t be ticked
Verify your sign-in email and tick Check this website first. If it says email sending isn’t set up, contact support.
I got a “not loading” alert but my site works
Your host may have been briefly down or blocking our check. If it keeps happening, ask your host whether they block automated checks.
Check now says try again later
Check now can run once an hour. The automatic checks keep running in the background.
Keep going
- Understand Overview and Your next steps
- Set up sitemap checks and review indexing status
- Set up, read and troubleshoot weekly email reports
- Compare your website with your competitors
Still stuck? Contact support with the feature, steps and a redacted error screenshot. Never send passwords, secret keys or private report links.