Your uptime monitor says everything is fine. Your users see a broken page.
BrokenPage is visual uptime monitoring — it checks what your pages look like, not just whether your server responds.
BrokenPage is a visual uptime monitoring tool that detects when web pages look broken to users — not just when servers are down. It renders pages in a headless browser, compares screenshots against baselines, and alerts when something looks wrong.
Visual Monitoring vs. Ping Monitoring: What Your Users Actually See
HTTP 200 on everything. Looks great, right?
Checkout button missing — layout shifted 340px
Page renders blank — JS console error detected
Same pages. BrokenPage sees what your users see.
How Visual Uptime Monitoring Works
Zero code. Paste a URL, get monitoring in 30 seconds.
Paste your URL
Add any web page you want to monitor. No code, no scripts, no browser extensions. Just a URL.
We render it like a real browser
BrokenPage loads your page in a headless Chromium browser — the same engine your users use. We take a screenshot and save it as your baseline.
We check it on a schedule
Every 15 minutes (or as often as every minute), we render the page again and compare it to the baseline. We detect layout shifts, missing elements, blank pages, and visual regressions.
You get alerted when it breaks
When we detect a visual change that exceeds your sensitivity threshold, we send you an alert with before/after screenshots and a visual diff. Email, Slack, or webhook — your choice.
BrokenPage vs. Checkly & Visual Sentinel
We check pages, not servers.
| Feature | BrokenPage | Checkly | Visual Sentinel |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detects visual breakage | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Detects blank pages | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Zero-code setup | Yes | No (Playwright scripts) | Yes |
| Ignore regions (mask dynamic content) | Yes | No | Yes |
| Screenshot history | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Visual diff overlay | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Configurable sensitivity | Yes | No | Yes |
| Production monitoring (post-deploy) | Yes | Partial | Yes |
| Slack/webhook alerts | Yes (Starter+) | Yes | Yes (paid) |
| Starting price | Free / $29/mo | $30/mo | $6/mo |
| Focus | Visual monitoring | CI/CD + production | 6 monitoring layers |
Visual Uptime Monitoring Pricing
How much does a broken checkout page cost you per hour?
Free
Try visual monitoring on one page.
- 1 monitored page
- 1 check per day
- Email alerts
- 7-day screenshot history
Starter
For teams that need to know their product works.
- 10 monitored pages
- Checks every 15 minutes
- Email alerts
- Ignore regions
- Configurable sensitivity
- 30-day screenshot history
Pro
For growing products with many pages.
- 50 monitored pages
- Checks every 5 minutes
- Slack + webhook alerts
- Ignore regions
- Visual diff history
- 90-day screenshot history
Business
For teams that can't afford any downtime.
- 200 monitored pages
- Checks every minute
- Slack + webhook alerts
- Team access
- API access
- Priority support
- 1-year screenshot history
Frequently Asked Questions
What is visual uptime monitoring?
Visual uptime monitoring renders your web pages in a real browser on a schedule, takes screenshots, and compares them against a known-good baseline. Unlike traditional uptime monitors that only check HTTP status codes, visual monitoring detects broken layouts, missing elements, JavaScript errors that cause blank pages, and other visual regressions that users actually see.
How is BrokenPage different from traditional uptime monitors?
Traditional uptime monitors ping your server and check if it returns an HTTP 200 status code. They cannot detect blank pages, broken layouts, missing checkout buttons, or JavaScript errors. BrokenPage renders your page in a headless browser — exactly like a real user — and compares screenshots to detect visual breakage that ping monitors completely miss.
Can uptime monitors detect blank pages?
Traditional uptime monitors cannot detect blank pages because they only check HTTP status codes. A page that returns HTTP 200 but renders blank due to a JavaScript error will show as "up" in these tools. BrokenPage uses a headless browser to actually render the page and compare its visual appearance, so it catches blank pages, broken layouts, and missing elements.
What does BrokenPage cost?
BrokenPage offers a free tier (1 page, 1 check per day) so you can try it risk-free. Paid plans start at $29/month for Starter (10 pages, checks every 15 minutes), $79/month for Pro (50 pages, checks every 5 minutes with Slack/webhook alerts), and $199/month for Business (200 pages, 1-minute checks with team access and API).
Is BrokenPage worth $29/month?
Consider what a broken checkout page, a blank landing page, or a missing signup form costs your business per hour. If your site generates revenue, a single visual outage that goes undetected for hours can cost thousands of dollars in lost conversions. BrokenPage catches these issues in minutes, often before your customers notice. At $29/month, it pays for itself the first time it catches a break that a ping monitor would miss.
How do I avoid false positives from dynamic content?
BrokenPage lets you draw "ignore regions" on your baseline screenshot to mask areas with dynamic content — ads, timestamps, live counters, rotating banners. These regions are excluded from visual comparison, so you only get alerted on real breakage, not noise. You can also adjust the sensitivity threshold per page.
What if I deploy an intentional redesign?
After an intentional change, simply approve the current screenshot as your new baseline from the dashboard. One click — BrokenPage then monitors against the updated design. No false alerts, no downtime in monitoring.
Stop trusting ping monitors.
See what your users see.
Start visual uptime monitoring free. No credit card required.