Website Monitoring for Web Design Agencies

The sites you design need to stay fast, indexed, and online long after launch. Lemwatch is the post-launch monitoring layer that keeps your portfolio looking the way you delivered it.

Web design agencies sell the launch — but get judged on the year that follows. Every site you ship picks up a slow third-party script, a CMS update that breaks the hero, an SSL cert that quietly expires, or a Core Web Vitals regression that drops the client's organic traffic. The client doesn't blame WordPress; they blame the agency that built it. Lemwatch gives you a continuous post-launch monitoring layer for every site in your portfolio — uptime, CWV, SEO, SSL, broken links, content changes, malware — so the work you delivered keeps delivering. Bundle it into your retainer or sell it as a separate care plan; the per-site cost is low enough either way (150 sites for $59/month on Agency) that the margin works.

Why it matters

Design-led agencies live and die on portfolio. A site you shipped two years ago that's now scoring 32 on Lighthouse and pulling 8s LCP is an active liability — it's the first result when a prospect Googles 'agency name + client'. The fix isn't doing free post-launch work forever; the fix is monitoring that surfaces regressions before they compound, plus a paid care plan that makes the maintenance a billable line item. Lemwatch does the surfacing automatically. White-label PDF reports give you the deliverable that justifies the line item. And the same platform doubles as a sales tool: when you're pitching a new client, the ability to show 'here's the live performance dashboard we'd give you' lands harder than any case study.

Problems this solves

Sites you launched 2 years ago now score 30 on Lighthouse

Per-site CWV tracking with regression alerts so you catch the cause early

Clients call you about outages you didn't know about

Multi-region uptime checks with alerts to email, Slack, SMS-via-webhook

SSL expires on a client site and the agency name is on the email

Domain + SSL expiry alerts 30, 14, 7, and 1 day out

Post-launch work eats unbilled hours

White-label monthly reports turn maintenance into a billable line item

CMS update breaks the homepage hero

Visual change detection diffs every page weekly and alerts on layout shifts

Portfolio sites lose Google rankings silently

SEO audit + indexability checks daily; alerts when title/meta/canonical drifts

What you get

Visual change detection

Weekly screenshots of every page in the client's site. When the hero, header, or footer changes — intentionally or not — you see the diff in your dashboard before the client notices.

Per-site Core Web Vitals

Real LCP, INP and CLS for the homepage and 2-3 key landing pages. Regression alerts fire the day a plugin or font swap kicks them over threshold.

Domain + SSL expiry alerts

30/14/7/1-day warnings on certificate and domain renewal — for every site in your portfolio. No more frantic Friday-night renewals.

White-label care-plan reports

Branded monthly PDF: uptime, performance trend, SSL status, what was caught and fixed. The deliverable that justifies the care plan line item.

Portfolio dashboard

One screen showing health grade A-F across every client site. Spot the regressions early; pitch the upgrade work proactively.

Public status pages

Branded status page per client on your subdomain (status.youragency.com). When a client asks 'is it down?', send a URL instead of typing a reply.

A typical week

Frequently asked questions

How does this fit into a care plan?

Most design agencies bundle Lemwatch into a $99-$249/mo care plan: 'monitoring + monthly white-label report + same-week fix on regressions'. The data is the proof; the agency's hours are the value layer.

Will my client know I'm using Lemwatch?

Not unless you choose to show it. White-label reports carry your branding, status pages live on your subdomain, and the platform itself is your team's internal tool.

Can I monitor sites I built on Webflow, Framer, or Wix?

Yes. Lemwatch is platform-agnostic — every check is run against the public HTML and headers, so any site with a public URL works. Webflow, Framer, Wix, Squarespace, WordPress, Shopify, custom — all supported.

What happens when a site I built breaks?

Alert routing splits by severity. A 500-error pages your on-call dev via SMS. An SEO regression pings the strategist's Slack. SSL expiry warnings go to the AM. One platform, three audiences.

Does it work for sites I designed but don't host?

Yes. Monitoring is purely external — you don't need hosting access, FTP credentials, or anything beyond the public URL.

Is there a free trial?

Yes. Free plan covers 10 sites — enough to monitor your agency's own site plus a few key clients. Upgrade to Pro ($19/mo, 50 sites) or Agency ($59/mo, 150 sites) when you outgrow it.