Uptime, SSL & performance monitoring
Keep an eye on whether your site is up, whether your SSL certificate is about to expire, and how page performance is trending — the operational basics that affect both visitors and search rankings.
What's included
- Uptime checks
- SSL expiry monitoring
- Page performance monitoring
These are the operational basics that affect both visitors and search engines: if your site is down, an expiring certificate is about to lock visitors out with a browser warning, or page performance has quietly degraded, you'll know before it turns into a bigger problem.
Monitoring runs continuously in the background — there's nothing to manually re-check, and checks happen more frequently on plans built for that (see Pricing).
How it works
Monitoring runs continuously in the background — there's nothing to manually re-check. If your site goes down, an SSL certificate is approaching expiry, or page performance quietly degrades, an alert reaches you through the same channel as everything else in alerts inbox & webhooks. Check frequency scales by plan — see Pricing.
Performance trends are tracked over time, not just as a pass/fail snapshot, so a gradual slowdown is visible on a chart well before it becomes bad enough to trigger an alert threshold.
Why these operational basics still matter for SEO
It's easy to think of uptime and SSL as an infrastructure concern separate from SEO, but both directly affect search rankings, not just visitor experience — a site search engines find down during a crawl attempt, or a certificate that's expired and triggering browser security warnings, can lose both visitors and rankings in the same incident.
- Downtime detected fast means less time with your site unreachable to visitors and crawlers alike.
- SSL expiry warned well ahead of time, not the day a browser starts showing visitors a security warning.
- Performance trends catch a slow, gradual regression that's easy to miss day to day but adds up to a real ranking and conversion cost.
- Multiple check locations reduce false positives from a single network blip, so an alert reflects a genuine outage rather than a one-off connectivity issue.
Frequently asked questions
How often is uptime checked?
Checks run continuously, with frequency scaling by plan — see Pricing for current intervals.
How far in advance am I warned about SSL expiry?
Warnings are timed to give you enough runway to renew before anything visitor-facing breaks, well ahead of the actual expiry date.
Can I get downtime alerts pushed to my own tools?
Yes, on plans with webhook access — see alerts inbox & webhooks.
Does this monitor individual pages or just the homepage?
Core monitoring covers your site’s availability broadly; for issues specific to individual pages, see technical SEO checks.