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Major Upgrades to Watchful’s Vulnerability Scanner
Watchful’s vulnerability scanner gets a major upgrade with new malware and reputation checks, CVE detection, automated scanning, and intelligent security notifications.
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We’re retiring the SEO Audit in favor of Google Lighthouse
We’re retiring Watchful’s original SEO Audit in favor of Google Lighthouse. Discover how automated weekly scans, detailed SEO reports, performance monitoring, and historical insights help you keep your websites in top shape.
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Introducing Google Lighthouse Website Quality Monitoring in Watchful
Watchful introduces performance drop detection for Lighthouse beta testers, with automatic warnings when website performance declines significantly.
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Uptime monitoring moves in-house with improved privacy and useful features
Uptime monitoring is an important consideration for anyone in charge of maintaining websites. At Watchful, we’ve completed the launch of our own uptime monitoring tool and added some useful changes. What is uptime monitoring? Uptime monitoring is a technique used to check if websites are online. Checks are performed on Read more
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Watchful now supports Google Analytics 4
Since 2014, reports generated by Watchful have been able to include traffic and other visitor data from Google’s Universal Analytics (UA). Today we are happy to announce that Google Analytics 4 (GA4) is now fully supported as well. Why support Google Analytics 4? Despite privacy concerns and new legislation, Google Read more
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It’s time to start migrating to Google Analytics 4 – even if you’re not ready!
If you use Google’s Universal Analytics (UA) to monitor traffic on your website, you are probably aware that it will sunset and stop collecting data on July 1, 2023. You may also know that UA is being replaced by Google Analytics 4 (GA4). But did you know that the traffic Read more
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Watchful platform updates for Summer 2022
Summertime is typically a bit of a slower period here at Watchful. So our engineers get a chance to chip away at some of the less-urgent tasks on our roadmap. While many of these don’t warrant their own blog post, I thought it might be useful to compile our platform Read more
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Turning bugs into features when building applications
At Watchful, we do our best to produce a quality, intuitive application for website management. And when a customer finds a bug, we do our best to fix it quickly. Sometimes these fixes lead to an improvement or feature in the platform. Below is a recent example of this process Read more
Customer Success Stories
How the downturn in print media inspired this journalist to build a website maintenance agency
Adrian Rodriguez loved to write from an early age. He could often be found penning short stories and poems. But his grades in school didn’t always reflect his love of the written word. After doing poorly on an English exam, Adrian convinced his teachers to swap retaking the exam with Read more
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Website uptime management added to bulk tools
Quickly fixing a website that goes offline is an important job for anyone managing websites regularly. That’s why monitoring website uptime is one of the central tools at Watchful. Now it is much easier to enable and disable this feature across your entire platform. When would you disable website uptime Read more