After a website update
- Open the homepage and important service pages on desktop and mobile.
- Follow the navigation, footer and main call-to-action links.
- Check that renamed pages redirect to relevant replacements.
- Submit a test enquiry and confirm it reaches the intended inbox.
- For a shop, follow your payment provider’s approved test process; do not assume a visible checkout means payments work.
- Review titles, descriptions and headings for accidental removals or duplicates.
During routine maintenance
- Review confirmed monitoring alerts and overdue checks.
- Look at excluded pages and coverage limits before treating a report as complete.
- Check that contact details, opening hours and prices remain accurate.
- Review software and plugin updates with a backup and recovery plan.
- Check domain and certificate renewal arrangements with your providers.
- Confirm that backups exist and that you know how to restore them.
What can Website Oversight automate?
Our service discovers public pages, schedules hourly homepage checks and daily page checks, retries errors and records results. Reports show the response and selected observations from initial HTML. Confirmed HTTP errors and missing titles can generate email alerts.
What still needs a person or another tool?
Visual layout, accessibility testing, browser performance, security reviews, backups, forms, payments and JavaScript behaviour need separate checks. Certificate-expiry monitoring is not enabled in Website Oversight. Monitoring reports help you decide what to investigate; they are not a maintenance or repair service.
Keep a simple issue log
For each problem, record the address, what you observed, the check time, who will investigate and how you verified the fix. Save the earlier result rather than replacing it with “fixed”. Website Oversight’s check history and CSV exports can provide the recorded observations.
For help interpreting page failures, read how to find broken pages. If you manage client sites, see monitoring for small agencies.