Checks
A 200 doesn't mean the page works
A payment page that answers perfectly, with a dead button and a vanished price, returns a 200 status. Any monitoring that stops there tells you all is well.
“Monitoring was green while the checkout stopped taking cards.”
A status code describes the server's response, not what the visitor can do.
- types of check
- 6
- maximum time per URL
- 12 s
- page bodies kept
- 0
- of technical log
- 90 d
types of check
maximum time per URL
page bodies kept
of technical log
What is actually checked
01The page responds, and its assets arrive
HTTP status, response time, and the actual loading of the declared scripts and stylesheets.
02The money path
On the pages that take money — cart, payment, confirmation — the presence of the price and of the Stripe script is checked explicitly.
03What networks and search engines see
Valid Open Graph title and image, consistent canonical, a sitemap that responds, indexability — a robots.txt or a meta tag that blocks everything is a silent regression no visitor will ever report to you.
04What changed
A page that existed and finds itself replaced by “coming soon”, a 5xx error or an empty shell: the content changed in nature without the URL moving.
What we're often asked
Do you keep the content of my pages?
No. Status, response time and a few metadata — title, canonical, presence of certain tags. No page body is kept, and the check history is purged automatically according to your plan.
Can it reach outside my domain?
No, and that's a technical guard, not a promise: every outgoing request goes through a check that refuses local addresses, private networks and cloud metadata endpoints. You can't turn PostShip into an internal network scanner.
How many times does it load my site?
Once per monitored URL per pass, with a global budget per cycle and at most three simultaneous requests per project. The user agent is explicit — PostShipBot — so you can isolate it in your own logs.
Paste your site's URL. PostShip checks it in front of you, no account and no card.