Pages & site settings
Once a site is added, you can see every page we're watching and tune exactly what counts as a change. This is where you cut out noise so your alerts stay sharp.
Browsing your pages
Open a site from My sites to see its pages. For each page you can see when it was last checked and jump into its history of changes. Use the search box to find a specific URL fast.
Click any page to see its own timeline, every change we've spotted on that single page, with the before and after side by side.
Excluding URLs you don't care about
Not every page needs watching. Login pages, search-result pages and endless filter URLs are usually just noise.
Open the site's settings
From the site, go to its Settings.
Add an exclusion
Add the URLs or URL patterns you want us to skip. New pages that match are left out automatically.
Excluded pages stop being crawled, so they won't clutter your timeline or trigger alerts.
Grouping pages by template
Most websites are built from templates: all blog posts look alike, all product pages share a layout. Page groups let you treat those pages as a set.
Why this matters:
- Set sensitivity once. A tiny wording change on a blog post might be fine, but the same change on your pricing page is a big deal. Group your pages and decide how strict to be per group.
- Fewer duplicate alerts. If your CMS updates a footer across 500 pages, grouping collapses that into one alert instead of 500.
Ignoring noisy elements
Some parts of a page change on their own all the time, think cookie banners, live prices, "X people viewing now" counters or rotating testimonials. You don't want an alert every time those tick over.
Ignore selectors tell SiteAlert to skip specific parts of a page. Once you mark an element as ignored, changes inside it stop triggering alerts, while the rest of the page stays watched as closely as ever.
Getting a repeat alert about something that doesn't matter? Open the change, and you can mark that element as noise so it's ignored from then on. SiteAlert also learns some of these patterns on its own, more on that in Change types & noise filtering.
Crawl settings
Each site keeps the crawl mode you picked when you added it (respect robots.txt or crawl freely). You can revisit this in the site's settings if your needs change. See Adding a site for what each mode does.