--- title: "Website Monitoring for Freelancers — Lemwatch" description: "Monitor every client site solo. Get paged before clients notice outages. White-label reports prove the value of your retainer." canonical: "https://lemwatch.com/for/freelancers" source: "https://lemwatch.com" --- # Website Monitoring for Freelancers > Catch issues before clients do. One dashboard for every site you build or maintain, with reports that justify the next invoice without writing them yourself. Freelancing means wearing every hat: designer, developer, project manager, SEO, support, and — quietly — sysadmin. The last hat is the one nobody trains you for, and it's the one a client notices the second a site goes down at 11pm on a Sunday. Lemwatch handles the sysadmin hat for you. Add every site you've built or maintain, pick the alert channels you actually check (email, SMS-via-webhook, Telegram), and get paged the moment something breaks — usually before the client refreshes their homepage. The Free tier covers 10 sites, the Pro tier ($19/mo) covers 50, and both include the full check suite — uptime, performance, SEO, security, broken links, and a dozen more. The unfair advantage is the white-label monthly report: a branded PDF that lands in your client's inbox automatically, summarising what was monitored, what was fixed, and why their retainer is paying for itself. ## Why it matters The hardest part of freelancing isn't the work — it's defending the retainer. A retainer that doesn't generate visible proof of activity is a retainer that gets cut at the first budget review. The traditional fix is monthly status emails, which take an hour to write, get skimmed in 30 seconds, and prove nothing. The better fix is automated reporting that arrives on the same day each month with your branding on it, showing the client exactly what was monitored and what was caught. Lemwatch produces those reports automatically. The other half of the freelancer problem is being a one-person on-call rotation. You can't monitor 20 client sites manually, and you can't afford an enterprise tool to do it for you. The Pro plan covers 50 sites at $19/month — less than the cost of one billable hour — and replaces a stack of separate uptime, SEO, and SSL tools. Set it up once when you onboard a new client; it pays itself back the first time you catch a 500-error before the client does and quietly fix it on a Tuesday afternoon. ## Problems this solves ### You're the on-call rotation for every client you have Automated 5-minute checks with alerts to your phone ### Clients ask 'what am I paying you for?' Auto-generated white-label monthly PDF reports ### Enterprise monitoring tools cost more than your retainer Pro plan is $19/mo for 50 sites, all features included ### You find out about outages from client emails Get paged before the client refreshes their homepage ### SEO regressions go unnoticed for weeks Daily Core Web Vitals + SEO scoring with alerts on regression ### Setting up monitoring per client takes hours Add a site, full check suite starts in <10 minutes ## What you get ### Pay-once-per-month, not per-site $19/mo gets you 50 client sites and every feature. No per-check fees, no SEO add-on, no enterprise upsell when you hit 25 sites. ### Alerts where you actually read them Email, Slack, Discord, Telegram via webhook, browser push. Pick one or all five — get the alert before the client does. ### White-label monthly reports A branded PDF lands in your client's inbox on the 1st of the month, summarising uptime, incidents, and SEO trends. Sent automatically with your logo. ### 30+ checks per site, no add-ons Uptime, Core Web Vitals, SEO audit, broken links, SSL expiry, security headers, DNS, malware — included from the Free tier upward. ### Quiet hours that respect your life Set 'don't page me between 11pm and 8am' per site or globally. Critical issues still escalate; cosmetic ones wait until morning. ### Onboard a client in under 10 minutes Add the URL, pick the alert channel, set the report frequency. Full check suite runs within 10 minutes — no per-site configuration needed. ## A typical week - Monday: A quick scan of the dashboard shows which client sites had blips over the weekend; most resolved themselves and didn't need action. - Tuesday: An SSL expiry alert fires 30 days early on a client domain — you renew before it becomes an incident. - Wednesday: A Core Web Vitals regression on a client's product page pages you; you ship a fix in 20 minutes and write it up for next month's report. - Thursday: New client signs; you add their site, the check suite starts, and you've billed them for setup in under an hour. - First of the month: White-label PDFs send to every client. You re-share the highlights on a call and renew two retainers without any extra effort. ## Frequently asked questions ### Is there a free tier I can start on? Yes. Free covers 10 sites with the full check suite and email alerts. Upgrade to Pro ($19/mo, 50 sites) when you outgrow it. No credit card required to begin. ### Can I bill clients for the monitoring as part of my retainer? Most freelancers do. Pro at $19/mo across 5 clients is $3.80/site/month — billed back at $20–50/site as part of a maintenance line item. The white-label reports give the client a tangible deliverable for the spend. ### Will my clients see the Lemwatch brand? Only if you want them to. On Pro and above, monthly reports can carry your logo and colours instead. Public status pages can run on your own subdomain. ### How fast do I get paged when a site goes down? Checks run every 5 minutes by default. A confirmed outage pages you within that window via your chosen channel (email, Slack, Discord, browser push). False positives are filtered by a 2-of-3 confirmation rule. ### Does it cover SEO and Core Web Vitals or just uptime? Both, plus 28 other checks. Every plan includes SEO audits, Core Web Vitals (LCP/CLS/INP), broken links, SSL expiry, security headers, malware scanning, DNS drift, and more. ### Can I add new clients without changing plans? Yes, up to the plan limit (5 on Free, 50 on Pro, 150 on Agency). Adding a site takes under a minute; the full check suite starts immediately. ### What happens if I cancel? You drop to the Free tier and keep your first 10 sites monitored. 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