Page checks

You add pages in Checks & pages, under Pages: an address such as /contact/ and a name. Each check opens that address on your site and reads the answer: whether it came, the status code, how long it took, how big the page is and what is on it.

How often depends on the site priority:

• Critical: every minute
• High: every 2 minutes
• Normal: every 5 minutes
• Low: every 15 minutes

A page can also get its own interval under Every, for example a faster one for the checkout. The login page and sitemap follow their own slower schedule (see Adding a site); you can't check them more often. Want to know right now? Press Run check on the page itself, once a minute at most.

A check fails when:

• the page doesn't answer at all, or keeps redirecting (a loop, or more than 5 redirects),
• it answers with an error status of 400 or higher, such as 404 (not found) or 500 (server error),
• or it shows an Urgent problem, such as a database error, even when the status says everything is fine.

One failed check isn't enough. WP Moo checks the page again right away from a second location, and only when that check fails too does the page show Offline. A network problem between us and your site, or a firewall that only blocks our first location, doesn't count as an outage. One good check brings the page back to Online, or to Slower when it crosses a Speed & size limit.

A page that works but crosses a limit of the Speed & size rules shows Slower: the server is typically slow to answer over a stretch of minutes, the page loads slowly, it got too big or half empty, or it takes too many redirects. It still counts as online. See Speed & size.

When a firewall or security plugin turns our checker away, the page shows Checker blocked instead of Offline. Visitors are probably fine; we just can't see the page. See Checker blocked.

Your site takes the worst status of its pages, in this order: Offline, Checker blocked, Slower, Online. One offline page makes the whole site Offline. A page or site we haven't checked yet shows Not checked yet.

Moving a site or rebuilding it? Pause it under Pause or delete in the site's settings. A paused site runs no checks and shows Paused, and its history is kept. A page you switch off in Checks & pages shows Paused too, and doesn't count towards the site's status.

Each check also runs the page's rule sets on the same answer: WordPress failure signatures, Hosting & error pages, Speed & size and Search engines. You can switch a set off for one page under Rules on that page. See Rules.