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Free website health check, then daily monitoring for £19 a year
Check in seconds whether your homepage loads, is secure, is not set to noindex and lets search and AI search crawl it under robots.txt. Then let Clunky Watch check it on a daily schedule and email you if it breaks.
Clunky Watch
Fine today is not fine forever
Most sites do not go down with a bang. A certificate fails to renew, a redesign ships with noindex still on, a security setting starts turning crawlers away. Nobody notices until enquiries dry up. Watch reruns the check above for you and emails you when something changes.
- Scheduled daily: the homepage loads, it is on HTTPS with a valid certificate that is not about to expire, it is not set to noindex, there is no bot check or block in front of it, and robots.txt still lets Google, Bing, ChatGPT Search and Perplexity crawl it.
- Scheduled weekly: a full readiness scan, with an email if the score drops 10 points, any area drops 15, or the AI visibility score drops 15 between two comparable scans.
Checks are scheduled, not instant: a busy day can push one to the next day. Watch is not minute-by-minute uptime monitoring.
What breaks quietly
Four failures that cost enquiries without anyone noticing
The certificate expires
Automatic renewal fails and browsers show a security warning instead of your site.
Search engines are told to leave
A noindex tag or header, often left over from staging, removes the homepage from search.
Crawlers are shut out
A robots.txt rule blocks Google, Bing, ChatGPT Search or Perplexity, or bot protection starts turning automated visitors away.
FAQ
Questions people ask
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What does the website health check test?
Whether your homepage loads, is on HTTPS with a valid certificate that is not about to expire, is not set to noindex, has no bot check in front of it, and whether robots.txt lets Google, Bing, ChatGPT Search and Perplexity crawl it. It is the same check Clunky Watch runs on a daily schedule.
Is Clunky Watch an uptime monitor?
Not a minute-by-minute one. Watch checks on a daily schedule and runs a full scan weekly, so it suits the slow, quiet failures: an expired certificate, a noindex left on after a redesign, a robots.txt rule that blocks Google. If you need to know within minutes that a site is down, use a dedicated uptime monitor as well.
How much does Clunky Watch cost?
£19 a year per site, including VAT. Renews automatically at £19 a year, including VAT, until you cancel. You can stop renewing from any Watch email, and you can get a full refund within 14 days of buying or renewing.
How do I start watching my site?
Run the free full scan of your homepage, email yourself the report, then turn on Watch from the report. Alerts go to the address the report was sent to.
Why is Watch not offered on my report?
Watch covers a site's homepage, so it is offered on reports for homepage scans. New watches also pause for a while if we reach the number of sites the daily checks can cover.