Changes to your website don't always go through the right process. An unapproved edit, a publishing mistake, a broken integration, or a compromised site can put incorrect or harmful content in front of customers. ChangeTower monitors your own pages and notifies you when something changes, so you can catch problems quickly.
Step 1: Choose the pages that matter most
Start with the pages where an unexpected change would cause the most harm, for example:
Your homepage and key landing pages
Pricing, rate, and product pages
Legal, privacy, and disclosure pages
Contact, support, and checkout pages
Step 2: Add your pages
In the left navigation menu, click on New Monitor. Use single-page monitoring for one page, or Monitor Multiple Pages to add many pages from your website at once. Our guide to importing URLs walks you through it.
Step 3: Choose how changes are detected
Content change monitoring – get notified about any change to the page. Best for pages that should rarely change, like legal and disclosure pages.
Smart Monitor – describe the changes you want to catch. Read our Smart Monitor guide to learn how to set it up. For example:
Notify me if any price on this page changes
Notify me if the legal disclaimer is removed or changed
Notify me if our phone number, email address, or physical address changes
Keyword change monitoring – track words that should never appear on your website, such as spam terms commonly added to hacked sites.
Step 4: Reduce noise
Ignore parts of your pages that change on purpose, such as blog feeds, rotating banners, or dates, so you're only notified about changes that need attention. Our guide to ignoring page elements shows you how.
Step 5: Customize monitor details
In the Details section, you can:
Set the monitoring frequency – check your most important pages more often
Add tags by site section or page owner
Choose save options – save on every run, or only when changes are detected
Step 6: Make sure every change is accounted for
Send notifications to a Slack channel used by your web or security team
Use notification states such as "Approved change" and "Unexpected – investigate"
Assign roles and permissions so the right people can review changes
Create monitors right from your browser
Looking at a page on your website that should never change without approval? With the ChangeTower Chrome extension, you can set up a monitor without leaving the page. Click the ChangeTower icon in your browser toolbar and describe what to watch for, for example "Notify me if anything on this page changes."