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URL Response

Check Overview​

What is this check?​

When you visit a webpage it returns a HTTP Status code, this tells the browser what type of content to expect, generally you'd want a webpage to return a 200 (OK) response but sometimes you might want to return a redirect or even block normal traffic from visiting the website.

URL Response Check Basic Interface

Why is this important?​

Giving the wrong status code as a response can cause issues not just for your users but also for search engines who won't index pages with codes such as 503 or 302.

Advanced Usage​

Default Rules​

The default rules for the URL Response check is to expect a 200 response.

Redirect Following NEW​

Little Warden can follow a page to see where it redirects (up to 5 redirects) to and ensure the final page returns a 200 status code.

Redirect Monitoring​

Sometimes you'll want to monitor that a URL redirects somewhere else (an old marketing site or an acquired brand name).

For this Little Warden can be configured to monitor redirects and ensure that they don't break.

Regular Expression Redirects Basic Interface

Regular Expression Redirect Monitoring​

There are some systems which will redirect to URLs that change infrequently (tracking codes embedded or date based URLs).

Little Warden can still monitor these by selecting 'a URL matching the regular expression'.

But I want more!​

Sure thing! Send us a message on littlewarden.com with what you want to be able to configure and we will see what we can do!