Website Tracker

A website tracker follows a live page so you do not have to open it every morning. Analytics trackers watch your visitors. This is the other direction: you watch someone else's public page.

The morning ritual is the tell. Competitor pricing. A vendor status page. A listing. You open it with coffee, see nothing, close it. The day it changes, you skip the ritual and find out on Slack from someone else.

Tracker, not a crawl of the whole site

Point at the URL that holds the fact. The pricing path, not the homepage. The jobs index, not the about page. AyeWatch checks that address and summarizes the delta. It is not a sitewide crawler and it is not an SEO rank tracker.

ChangeDetection.io will dump a raw HTML diff if you self-host. Visualping will dump a screenshot. The 2026 tools roundup maps those. AyeWatch is the summary in your pocket.

How the check works in practice

Paste the URL. Write what "changed" means. Pick an interval. Free Preview is Daily or slower, six lifetime runs, three topics, push and in-app. Pro is $9 a month, 50 topics, six-hour checks. Paid adds Slack and webhooks.

You still need a public page. Login walls, bot challenges that never render, and apps that only exist in a native client are out of scope. Say that up front so you do not buy the wrong job.

Replace the morning tab

Pick the one URL that already owns a slot in your head. Run it for a week. If the tracker saves you the open-and-close, add the next page. If the pings are junk, the rule is wrong. Tightening the rule is cheaper than deleting the product.

A website tracker is a habit replacement. Treat it that way. One URL. One sentence. One channel you will actually read. If you still open the tab every morning after a week of quiet, that is success, not failure. The tracker is doing the looking. You are waiting for a ping. Add the next URL only after that feels true. Quiet is the product working. Noise is the product failing.