Help guide

Quick start

1. Create an account Register with a username and password. You must accept the Terms of Service.
2. Add webpages Paste up to 50 URLs at once — one per line. Optionally choose a folder so new pages are organized as you add them.
3. Resubmit all Run a full check when you want fresh snapshots. Changed pages appear in Main view.
4. Review changes Open Main view, click a change, and use the side-by-side diff viewer to see what moved. Use folders to filter by department or topic.

Most teams run Resubmit once per day (or on a schedule), then work through Main view until every change is reviewed.

Add webpages

Start monitoring new URLs.

• Paste public page URLs — rate tables, policy pages, disclosure pages, and similar reference content.
• Submit up to 50 URLs in one batch. Progress is shown while each URL is fetched.
• Use “Save into folder” to assign new pages to a folder (or leave All / unassigned).
• Duplicate URLs for your account are skipped automatically.
• Each page keeps up to three stored snapshots (versions).

Resubmit all webpages

Re-fetch every monitored URL and detect changes.

• This is your main “check for updates” action.
• Webmonitor compares each live page to the latest stored snapshot.
• If nothing changed, no new version is saved.
• If content changed, a new version and diff are recorded — the change shows up in Main view.
• Resubmit always checks every URL for your account — folders do not limit the fetch.
• You can pause and resume a long batch; progress is saved if you close the tab.

Main view

Your inbox of detected changes.

• Lists pages that changed during resubmit runs.
• Group by site or sort by date. Filter to unreviewed only.
• Each row shows which folder the page belongs to (or — if unassigned).
• Click a folder chip above the table to show changes from that folder only; All shows everything.
• Click a row to open the diff viewer.
• Opening a diff marks it as reviewed.

Diff viewer

See exactly what changed between two snapshots.

• Open a change from Main view. Orange highlight = previous snapshot; cyan = current snapshot.
• Tabs: All changes (full page), Text changes (changed lines only), Text in context (surrounding text), and Image (when screenshots exist).
• Toolbar under the tabs (pane options bar): layout, legend, expand/collapse, jump between changes, change size summary, and width zoom.
• Single page vs Side-by-side — Side-by-side shows previous and current in two panes; turn on Sync scroll to move both together. Single page merges into one scroll (your choice is remembered).
• Single page merge depends on the diff: Paired — each orange highlight sits next to its cyan partner on the current page layout. Mixed — pairs appear in the current page; extra new-only highlights stay in place (typical when new text was added below unchanged content). Stacked — full previous page above full current page when the page changed so much that highlights cannot be paired safely. Text changes tab always shows each old line then its new line inline.
• All changes: Expand all / Collapse all opens or closes accordion sections in the panes (or in the single-page view when applicable).
• All changes and Text in context: use ⏮ ◀ ▶ ⏭ to jump between highlighted changes; the active highlight is outlined. In side-by-side layout, the link icon after ⏭ toggles paired vs unpaired navigation — paired boxes the same change number in both panes; unpaired visits one highlight at a time (all previous-pane changes, then all current-pane changes).
• Change summary (S/M/L, TWC, DWC, +/−/↔) matches Main view; click i for samples and word-count detail.
• Width slider zooms the page view (50%–200%) in All changes, Text changes, Text in context, and Image.
• Best for compliance review — you see changes in context, not just a text dump.

Folder management

Group monitored URLs into departments or topics — like drawers for your catalogue.

• Each page belongs to at most one folder, or stays unassigned under All. Folders are flat (no nesting).
• The folder strip appears on Add webpages, Main view, and Monitoring. Each chip shows a name and link count; All is your full catalogue.
• Create a folder with + New folder. Right-click a folder to rename it, set a background color, or delete it.
• Deleting a folder does not delete the pages — they become unassigned and still appear under All.
• On Add webpages, choose Save into folder before Submit so new URLs land in the right place.
• On Monitoring (open a site), select pages and use Move to folder to assign or clear folders in bulk. Main view is for reviewing changes, not organizing.
• Click a folder on Main view to filter the change list. Resubmit and Compare always process every URL — folders are for organization and review only, not separate quotas or logins.

Monitoring

Browse everything you track.

• Sites overview — all domains you monitor, with status counts.
• Site detail — every URL under one host, with its folder name.
• Select pages and Move to folder to organize your catalogue (or clear back to All / unassigned).
• Page detail — snapshot dates, fetch status, and past diffs for one URL.
• Delete a single page or an entire site when you no longer need it.

Broken links

Pages that stopped responding correctly.

• Lists URLs that return repeated 404s, are blocked (403), or show an access challenge instead of the real page.
• Review the list and remove URLs you no longer want to track.
• Webmonitor does not auto-delete broken pages — you stay in control.

Fetch status & difficult pages

What happens when a page cannot be retrieved normally.

• Each monitored URL has a fetch status on the Monitoring screens (for example OK, not found, blocked, rate limited, or error).
• Most public pages are fetched directly from our servers using HTTP or headless browser automation.
• If a site returns 403 Forbidden, rate limits (429), or a bot-check / challenge page, the URL may stay blocked until access improves or our team enables additional retrieval options on a test basis.
• Challenge-style responses (for example “Just a moment…”) may be stored so you can see that access was blocked rather than silently missing a change.
• PDF URLs use a separate download pipeline and are not mixed with the HTML fetch ladder.
• During the private beta, enhanced retrieval for difficult pages is operator-managed — there is no customer self-service toggle yet. Contact us if authorized pages fail to add or stay blocked.

Removed links

Audit trail of URLs you deleted.

• Read-only log of pages you removed manually.
• Useful when you need to confirm what was taken off a catalogue.

Robots.txt

Respect site crawl rules before fetching.

• Webmonitor checks robots.txt before fetching a URL.
• Blocked pages appear on the Robots.txt screen.
• You can authorize an override after accepting the Terms — only when you have permission to monitor that content.

Compare versions

Repair tool — not part of the daily loop.

• Re-runs diff logic on stored snapshots without fetching live pages.
• Use after a settings change or to backfill missing diffs.
• Compare always covers every URL for your account — folders do not limit the run.
• For everyday monitoring, use Resubmit instead.

PDF pages

Monitor PDF rate tables and documents.

• PDF URLs are downloaded and converted to HTML for diffing.
• They follow the same add → resubmit → review workflow as normal web pages.

What to monitor