Web Content Monitoring

WebWatchBot is a monitoring and analysis software for web sites and IP devices including Ping, HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, POP3, FTP, Port, and DNS checks. It provides in-depth monitoring and alerting functionality as well as tools to analyze and visualize historical data with real-time charting and graphs. Additional features include an option to run as a Windows Service, customizable 3D charts with print support, SQL database storage, and more.

WebSite-Watcher allows you to quickly check an unlimited number of websites for updates and changes. The sites can be checked by file date or file content, and you can use several filters, such as to ignore changing banners. You can manually add the links to be monitored, import a list from a comma delimited file and also import RSS feeds and browser bookmarks from IE, Firefox and Opera. WebSite-Watcher automatically saves the last two versions of websites and allows you to view them with all textual changes highlighted. Other features include keyword alerts, email notifications, support for server authentication and more.

AdSenseLog is a software that allows you to check and analyze your Google Adsense account. It can report on impressions, clickthrough rates, daily revenue and other details, and generate performance graphs for long-term statistics. It supports all AdSense data, including Content, Referrals, Search and Channel statistics. The program can also notify by email or SMS (if available) with revenue updates. A tray icon provides an infotip with up to date information for the latest statistics.

Web Forum Reader enables you to read and keep track of your favorite Internet forums without having to use your browser. You can monitor multiple forums from a single interface, quickly browse the new topics with the built-in browser preview, and see the number of new posts across all of your forums at a glance. The program provides a simple step-by-step wizard that guides you through the process of adding new forums. It automatically adapts to the HTML layout of the forum pages by simple point and click actions - no scripting is needed on your end. The results are accurate and worked well with the 3 different forums we used for testing. Other features include a keyword search option, as well as import and export of resources.

UpdatePatrol (formerly DeltaSpy) enables you to check your favorite sites or blogs for updates and view the highlighted changes from a built-in browser preview. The program works silently in the background and notifies you from the system tray when changes were found. You can configure each site individually and also set specific criteria with keywords and Regular Expressions. Other features include support for HTTP authentication, easy addition on new sites via drop target, user-defined categories and more. DeltaSpy supports monitoring of ordinary web pages as well as RSS, Atom, RDF, XML and text files on the Internet.

BrowseReporter enables administrators to track web browsing activity across the network. The program runs as a server/client application and can monitor any workstation that has the BrowseReporter client installed. The client can be deployed manually or via remote installation from the server machine. Once installed, the client application will run silently in the background and collect browsing activities, which it then uploads the the server, either on demand or on a regular schedule. The server interface allows the administrator the generate detailed reports that show sites visited, total browsing time, bandwidth usage and a variety of statistical graphs. The reports can be generated by PC or user and also limited to a custom time range. Other features include automated email reporting, scheduled monitoring, remote screen catpture and more. BrowseReporter is compatible with Internet Explorer and Firefox, other browser activity will not be tracked.

Check&Get lets you monitor web pages for updates and notifies you when changes were made to the page. It can save a snapshot of the page for offline viewing, detect dead-links, duplicated and mirrored web pages and allows you to search and sort your bookmarks by URL, description and keywords. You can import your existing Favorites from Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Netscape and Opera, and manually add new items to the list as well. It offers customizable settings per site, each with individual schedule and criteria that trigger an update notification. The notification options include sound, email, and popup alert. Additional features include keyword search and highlighting, integrated browser display and more.

Orbiscope Observer enables you to track changes in web pages and RSS feeds. It highlight the changes, using a built-in browser display and also allows you to view previous versions of the page, which is useful to catch up with changes that occurred over several days. In addition, you can watch for certain keywords to appear and monitor dynamic images (e.g stock charts). If a page has changed or a keyword is detected, you can be alerted via popup message, email or network message. Additional features include support for HTTP authentication, proxy connections, FTP upload of reports and export to HTML and Excel format.

DocuMonitor is a simple web site, WWW/FTP file and local file modification monitor, that allows you to monitor local files or internet resources for changes. This includes web pages, FTP files and others. The program can perform an optional binary comparison and look for specific strings in web pages. Monitoring is simple and alerts you when an item has changed (but does not provide further details). Additional features include optional sound notification and support for password protected resources. Monitoring can be automated to check every X minutes.

EyeOnWeb is a web-monitoring tool that lets you create custom alerts for content on web sites. Unlike with most other web site monitoring tool, EyeOnWeb lets you select specific elements of a web page that you want to monitor, as well as custom conditions that trigger a notification. For example, you could monitor the stock rate for a particular item on a page and have it notify you when the value drops below a certain number. This allows you to monitor only the elements of a page that you are interested in, rather than the entire web page (which may change daily). When data on a web page changes in a way you specified, you can choose to be notified via popup window, e-mail, Windows Messenger service, and sound alert. Data can also be saved to a CSV file for a processing in Excel or other spreadsheet programs. EyeOnWeb also includes advanced parsing options that allow advanced users to create more complex monitoring items.

Link Checkup is a simple utility for webmasters, that allows you to verify the existence of a link on a list of specified sites. You can add a list of sites and URLs to check for, and the program will check if the exact URL is linked from the site(s). You can check an unlimited number of sites/links and import links from a text file or search engine results.