The competitor monitoring tool that shows the URLs.
Find out the day a competitor launches a new section, a new landing page, a new language — with the URLs in your hand, weeks before any of it shows up in the rankings.
- professionalheadshot.io212 pagesno changes+ 10/headshot-types/*new
- professionalheadshot.io/headshot-types/linkedin-headshots
- professionalheadshot.io/headshot-types/corporate-headshots
- … 8 more
A new section split by use case — and every page shipped in seven languages at once.
- datephotos.ai859 pagesno changes
The URLs, not just a number
Most change monitors hand you a count. We group what moved by path, then keep up to fifty real URLs behind each group. So you see "+42 /compare/*", and then you see the forty-two comparison pages they just built, and you open one and read it.
- competitor.com/compare/notion-vs-airtable
- competitor.com/compare/notion-vs-coda
- … 40 more
Only the changes that mean something
You will still have this turned on in six months. A raw sitemap diff is noise — an ecommerce competitor adds hundreds of product URLs a week, and after three days you would mute us. So an email means one of three things happened: a path that never existed before, a section jumping by a fifth or at least ten pages at once, or pages coming down. Everything else waits quietly in your dashboard. All your targets arrive in one email, and if nothing tripped, no email.
- +40 /headshots-for/* (new)
- −2 /pricing/*
Set it once, and forget it for a year
Tools that load the page and compare pixels get bot challenges, proxy bills and annoyed webmasters — so they quietly stop working, and you find out weeks after you stopped hearing from them. We read one public XML file a site is already asking search engines to crawl. There is nothing there to block and nothing for you to maintain, which is also why a hundred domains fit on one plan instead of five.
Watch every competitor you can name, not just your top three.
Checking a domain never costs credits — not the first one, not the fortieth. So you never have to decide in advance which rivals are worth a slot.
add the ones you’re unsure about
You don’t have to rank your rivals before watching them. Put in the two you suspect don’t matter — those are the ones that surprise you.
popular rivals check daily, even free
If anyone on a paid plan watches the same domain as you, it gets checked every day — and your account inherits that, whatever you pay.
nothing spends while you sleep
A monitor can’t drain your balance. The one action that bills is you asking the agent to explain a change — 1 credit, printed on the button.
Watch your first competitor free.
- ✓every existing report, free to read
- ✓try a trace before signing up
- ✓monitor 1 competitor, weekly digest
- ✓no card, no password — just email
- ✓150 credits, never expire
- ✓5 full analyses (trace + timeline + verdict)
- ✓$3.98 per full analysis
- ✓works across every dashboard tool
- ✓usable from Claude Code, Cursor & Codex — via MCP
- ✓100 credits every month
- ✓unused credits roll over — they never expire
- ✓an SEO agent that works your own data
- ✓5 competitors monitored daily
- ✓unlimited traces, timeline & verdict unlocks on the site
- ✓fair use applies
Questions, answered
Anything else — support@tracetify.com
How does Tracetify monitor a competitor’s website?
It reads the sitemap they publish about themselves. When you add a domain we fetch its robots.txt, find the XML sitemaps it points to, and store the list of URLs. From then on we fetch it again — daily on a paid plan, weekly on free — and compare the two lists. Pages that appeared, pages that vanished.
What changes does it catch?
Anything that changes the set of pages a site publishes: a new section, a batch of programmatic pages, a landing page going live, a product line quietly coming down. That is the layer where strategy shows up. Edits inside a page that already existed don’t move the sitemap, so this tells you what they built, not what they reworded.
What if the competitor has no sitemap?
We tell you immediately, when you add them. We probe the domain the moment you paste it and refuse it on the spot rather than letting you wait a week for an email that was never coming. Same if their server blocks us — you’ll know within seconds, not on Monday.
Will the site I’m watching know?
They can, and we made that easy on purpose. Our crawler identifies itself honestly in every request and links to a page explaining exactly what it fetches. We request robots.txt and the XML sitemaps it names — nothing else. No page content, no rendering, no following internal links, and at most once per domain per day.
How is this different from a website change monitor like Visualping?
Those tools load the page and compare pixels or DOM. That gets them copy edits, and it also gets them bot challenges, proxy bills and annoyed webmasters. We read one public XML file a site is already asking search engines to crawl, so we’re fast, we scale to a hundred domains on one plan, and nobody has to defend against us. Different layer of the same question.
Does monitoring cost credits?
No. Adding a target, the daily fetches, the diff, the grouping and the email are all unmetered — a monitor sitting there for a year costs zero. The one thing that bills is optional: asking the agent to explain a change costs 1 credit, and it’s shown on the button before you click it.
We read the sitemap they publish about themselves, diff it against yesterday, and email you the URLs — the day they ship, not the quarter they announce it.