When 200 OK Means Nothing: Why Traditional Monitoring Misses Real Site Failures

Most uptime monitoring tools rely solely on HTTP status codes, leaving critical failures invisible when sites return 200 OK responses while serving broken experiences. Sitewatch fills this gap by detecting 11 types of real incidents—from broken asset references after deployments to redirect loops and MIME type mismatches—that ping-based monitors completely miss, fundamentally reshaping how teams understand true site health.