How to monitor a URL with Tracked URLs
Who needs this functionality?
Tracked URLs are ideal for teams that ship often and need to detect technical or content regressions on high-value pages.
Example: if your SEO landing page should stay stable, add it to Tracked URLs after release. If HTML, status, or performance changes, you'll receive a notification and see a full change log.
- Open the 'Tracked URLs' page from your website dashboard.
- In the top-right corner, click '+ Add new URL'.
- To add many URLs at once, click Bulk add URLs on the create page.
- In the "Document URL" field, enter the path of the page you want to track.
Note: To avoid extra load and duplicate notifications, duplicate "Document URL" entries are limited. Uniqueness is based on "Document URL" + selected user agent. If you intentionally want to track the same URL with different settings, add `#anything` to the end of the URL.
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Select which user agent (UA) to use for checks. Depending on your choice, requests will use one of these user agents:
- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; 2-UAcomBot-Mobile/1.0; +https://2-ua.com/support/robots)
- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; 2-UAcomBot/1.0; +https://2-ua.com/support/robots)
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Enable "Check W3C" if you want us to verify the URL for compliance with W3C standards. You will have the opportunity to view reports for specific URLs as well as for the entire site.
Information about the frequency of checks and notifications is located on the main page in the "Frequently Asked Questions -> What we are checking" section
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Enable "Check Google PageSpeed" if you want us to verify the URL for compliance with
Google PageSpeed standards. You will have the opportunity to view reports for specific URLs as well as for the entire site.
Information about the frequency of checks and notifications is located on the main page in the "Frequently Asked Questions -> What we are checking" section
- In Specify the expected HTTP status, choose the expected code using the same labeled options used in create/edit/bulk flows (for example, 200 OK, 301 Moved Permanently, 302 Moved Temporarily, 307 Temporary Redirect). If the actual response differs, you'll receive notifications (if enabled for the site).
- For redirect expectations (301, 302, 307), fill the Redirect to field that appears. This checks both the status code and the destination URL.
- Specify the threshold, in seconds, in the "Threshold, sec." field. If the response time exceeds the specified value, we will send you a notification.
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Choose from the dropdown list "Location of the checking server" the server that is closest to your website's server to obtain the most accurate response time for your website.
Note: Since network issues and delays cannot be ruled out, the actual response delay time for the site will be slightly lower than what we display. The dynamics of changes in the URL response time will always be important for you.
Currently available server locations:
- FI Helsinki
- US Hillsboro
- SG Singapore
- SPb Saint Petersburg
- In the "Page text regex" field, you can add regular expressions to track specific page content.
- For example, for online stores, using a regular expression, you can monitor changes in the product price.
- Before saving, click the "Preview" button to see how our service processes the specified URL.
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For existing tracked URLs, you can use bulk actions directly from the Tracked URLs table:
- Select multiple rows with checkboxes.
- Use the bulk panel to update threshold, tags, expected HTTP status, redirect target, and check server.
- Use Duplicate as Desktop/Mobile to quickly create UA variants.
After some time, following the save and accumulation of data, in the "Tracked URLs" section, you will see summarized information for all tracked URLs.
