Jul 11 2026
New A pricing guide for your care plans
New in Guides: how much to charge for website maintenance, with real published rates across five regions and a calculator to put a number on your own client list.
Public log
What shipped
Updates to SiteLetter, newest first. New features, refinements, fixes.
July 2026
7 changes Jul 10 2026
Improved Shared report links now show the full report
When you share a client's report, the link opens the complete branded report in one page: Performance, uptime, visual changes, broken links, SSL, and domain. The shared page stays private and isn't indexed by search engines.
Jul 8 2026
New A free SSL/HTTPS checker, no signup
Check any domain's certificate in seconds: whether it's valid, who issued it, and how many days until it expires. Handy for a quick look at a client's site, or a prospect's before you pitch.
Jul 8 2026
Improved Sharper SSL certificate checks
SSL monitoring now flags more certificate problems: expired, self-signed, untrusted, or issued for the wrong domain, not just certificates nearing expiry.
Jul 6 2026
Fixed Ongoing issues no longer trigger a repeat alert on every scan.
When a check crosses one of your alert thresholds, SiteLetter now alerts you once and stays quiet until the state actually changes, instead of re-sending the same alert each time the site is checked. No more duplicate emails or Slack messages for a problem you already know about.
Jul 1 2026
Improved Checks blocked by a site's bot protection no longer look like failures.
When a site's security or bot protection blocks a check, SiteLetter now marks it "Couldn't verify" instead of counting it as broken or sending a false expiry alert. The dashboard, the weekly email, and the PDF report all show the same neutral state, so a blocked check never reads as a real problem on a client's report.
Jul 1 2026
Improved A faster dashboard, and a clearer Performance view.
A round of refinements to how you move around the dashboard and read a site's performance over time.
- Switch sites from a tab bar. Jump between the sites in a client, and between clients, from tabs across the top instead of digging through a menu.
- Uptime on a single page. The uptime summary and the per-page status table now sit together on one Uptime page.
- Performance as a seven-day average. The Performance page shows a rolling seven-day average with the change from the week before, so one slow scan no longer swings the score.
- Filter content health by type. Sort broken and insecure items by links or images to find what needs fixing faster.
June 2026
1 change Jun 16 2026
Improved Visual change tracking, rebuilt from the ground up.
The screenshot and visual-comparison engine was rewritten end to end. Captures hold steady from one scan to the next, and when a page changes the difference is pinpointed to the exact element that moved instead of flagging a whole section.
- Steadier captures. Each screenshot waits for the page to fully settle (fonts, images, animations, late-loading widgets) before it is taken, so unchanged pages stay consistent scan to scan and real changes stand out.
- Pinpointed changes. Every detected change is outlined directly on the screenshot and labelled by what happened to it (added, removed, edited or moved), with the changed areas spotlighted so you can see at a glance where a page shifted.
- Minor and major changes are separated. A small cosmetic tweak no longer looks as alarming as a full redesign, so the dashboard and reports lead with what actually matters.
- One simpler Visual Tracking page. The separate overview folded into a single history view, with per-device (desktop and mobile) status and a faster filmstrip for stepping back through past scans.
May 2026
6 changes May 30 2026
Improved Page discovery now follows your robots.txt rules.
SiteLetter respects the crawl rules in your robots.txt when choosing which pages to monitor, and the pages view shows any pages those rules keep out of monitoring. Your homepage is always kept, and discovery holds up better on large sites with sprawling sitemaps.
May 28 2026
Improved Alternative comparisons now use more precise data.
The /alternatives matrix and the individual comparison pages were re-verified against current vendor pricing and feature pages. Numbers reflect what each tool ships today.
May 27 2026
Improved Captures and change tracking are steadier on busy sites.
A few patterns that used to throw off a scan no longer do. Newsletter popups, rotating banners, lazy-loaded image grids, hover-only menus. Captures look the way the page actually looks, and the dashboard stops flagging false changes the day after.
May 26 2026
Improved Screenshots and visual change detection both got sharper.
Page screenshots now capture cleanly on complex layouts. No more missing chunks or duplicated content. And when something on a page changes, the diff highlights just the area that moved instead of marking the whole page as different.
May 25 2026
New Mixed content and insecure links now show up on content health.
Mixed content flags http:// scripts, stylesheets, iframes and images loaded by an https page (browsers block or warn on these). Insecure links lists http:// anchor URLs. Both show as separate sections on content health, distinct from broken resources.
May 24 2026
Improved Weekly email report got a top-to-bottom polish pass.
Three weeks after launch, the report sections had drifted into a patchwork of slightly different styles. This pass realigned them. Same data, quieter rendering, every surface speaking the same colour language.
- Site Status section redrawn as a hairline-ruled stat block. The day counts are the design, traffic-light coloured (green / amber / red), no pill, no per-cell dots.
- Uptime calendar aligned to the week (Mon-Sun columns with dates inside each cell), quarterly reports now split into three per-month mini-calendars with breathing room between them.
- Broken-link reports now list the broken URLs with their HTTP status codes, up to 8 inline with a "+ N more" count below. Clean state has its own quieter rendering.
- Portfolio overview uses full Lighthouse names (Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, SEO) instead of dev abbreviations, with period-over-period deltas inline.
- Score badge for a perfect 100 is now green, not brand blue, so a single score follows the same traffic-light scheme as every other number on the report.
April 2026
1 change Apr 26 2026
New SiteLetter launches.
Public in late April 2026. Website monitoring built for agencies that bill a retainer. 15 pages monitored per client site. Flat $5 per site, per month. Built because none of the existing tools treated the monthly client report as the deliverable, and that is the actual deliverable.
- Uptime, Lighthouse, screenshots, visual regression, broken-link and broken-image checks.
- White-label client reports: agency logo, accent colour, reply-to, no SiteLetter branding on the client-facing surface.
- Report schedules: weekly, biweekly, monthly, quarterly. Quarterly reports split into per-month mini-calendars so the grid stays readable at email width.
- Portfolio overview across all client sites in one table, with period-over-period deltas.