Automating regular website checks

[KaKi87]

If I understand the FAQ correctly, regular website checks are done manually, but did you consider automating these ?

[kevquirk]

Sorry for the delay in reply - only just saw this.

We kinda do. We have scripts we run to check them, but it's still fairly manual. If you have any ideas to fully automate it, I'd love to hear them. Unfortunately, a lot of the services out there that can do this kind of thing cost money.

[KaKi87]

So you're paying for the GTMetrix API ?

Otherwise I would suggest performing measurements using a headless browser.

[kevquirk]

No, we're not at the moment, because it's so manual. If we wanted to fully automate checking for both size changes and whether they're still up, we'd need to (I think).

[KaKi87]

A headless browser can do these as well.

[garritfra]

I think this thread is relevant: #749

I'll dig into that later today, it's been a while.