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Content monitoring

How to monitor page content changes

Use exact required- and forbidden-text checks to verify phrases in HTTP responses, and understand what WebCheck does not compare automatically.

WebCheck does not currently alert on every change to a page. Its content checks look for a specific phrase that you require or forbid in the HTTP response.

What content checks can do

A required-text check fails when its configured phrase is missing. A forbidden-text check fails when that phrase is present. Matching is an exact, case-sensitive substring search in the response body WebCheck receives.

WebCheck records a response hash as run evidence, but it does not compare that hash with a saved baseline or raise an alert for any arbitrary page change.

Required and forbidden text

Use a heading or service message that should remain present, or a known error message that should stay absent. Avoid phrases containing timestamps, prices, rotating offers, personalised content or other values that change normally.

When a whole-page content diff is needed

Use a tool designed to compare rendered pages or response snapshots if you need to detect arbitrary changes. WebCheck's text assertions are narrower: they answer whether the configured phrase appeared in the response for that run.