Check my website automatically every week
This is the shopkeeper's quiet-morning walk through the shop: straighten the shelves, try the door, check nothing has fallen over. Websites do not fail loudly - a moved page quietly breaks three links, an embed provider changes something, a good page slips in search - and none of it sends you an email. This job makes your site send the email.
What the weekly note covers
- Links and pages. Anything broken, anything rendering oddly, anything that changed since last week without you changing it.
- Visitors. This week against last, and which pages moved - if analytics is on for the site.
- One suggestion. The single most useful thing to do next week, so the note ends with a step rather than a shrug.
Setting it up
Test the brief once by pasting it into a chat with Bernard - you get today's health check straight back, which is also just a useful thing to run before you share your site with anyone. Then make it a standing job as described in Put an AI agent to work on my business.
Owners who sell pair this with Watch my shop and tell me when sales go quiet; the two notes together answer "is the site well, and is it working?" in under a minute a week. If the search half of the picture matters to you, Watch my Google results and tell me if they slip goes deeper on that.
The prompt
“Run a weekly health check on my site every [Sunday evening]: look for broken links, anything on a page that looks wrong, and how this week's visitors compare with last week. Send me one short note - lead with anything urgent, and keep it to one line if all is well.”
Press Copy, then paste it into your AI and fill in the [bracketed] parts. First time? Connect your AI to bernard first - a one-time setup in bernard → your site → Use your own AI.
Questions people ask
- How do I monitor my website without paying for a monitoring service?
- Your site already knows its own state - its pages, its links, its visitor numbers. This brief has Bernard read all three on a schedule and tell you only what changed, which is what most paid monitoring amounts to.
- What kinds of problems will it catch?
- The quiet ones: a link that broke when a page moved, an embed that stopped loading, a page whose visits fell off a cliff after a change. Loud failures you would notice yourself; this is for the rot you would not.
- If it finds a broken link, does it fix it?
- It can prepare the fix as a draft, and the note tells you so. The change waits for your approval on a preview page before anything on the live site moves.
- Does it check visitor numbers too?
- Yes, if your site has analytics turned on - the note compares the week with the one before and names the pages that moved. Without analytics it still checks links and pages, and tells you the visitor half is not being measured.