How to Monitor Squarespace Website Uptime

Squarespace takes care of hosting, but your availability still depends on DNS, SSL, embedded tools, and your own content changes. Monitoring keeps your business site reliable by tracking the pages that matter to customers and the infrastructure that keeps them loading quickly.

Here is a simple monitoring plan for Squarespace websites that catches outages and slowdowns without extra overhead.

Monitor the pages customers actually use

Start with your homepage, then include your highest traffic pages. For most Squarespace sites, that means:

• Homepage and contact page.
• Booking, scheduling, or order pages.
• Top SEO landing pages.
• Checkout pages if you sell products.

Confirm your custom domain and SSL

Squarespace handles SSL certificates, but custom domain settings still fail. Monitor your canonical URL and certificate expiration. If your domain points incorrectly or SSL fails, visitors will see browser warnings or land on the wrong site.

Watch for content publishing issues

Publishing errors can produce missing assets, broken layouts, or 404 pages. After major updates, run a manual check and keep monitoring tighter for 24 hours. That is often enough to catch anything that slipped through.

Track response time and error codes

A spike in 500 or 503 errors often precedes a larger outage. Monitor for HTTP errors and slow TTFB to catch performance regressions early. This is especially important if you embed third-party widgets.

Use alerts that fit your schedule

Set SMS or push alerts for downtime and reserve email for SSL or performance warnings. Most business owners only need to wake up for real outages, not minor fluctuations.

Weekly reliability check

• Review uptime history and confirm alerts were delivered.
• Validate that redirects still resolve to your canonical domain.
• Check response times across your key pages.