When people hear "website change monitoring," they immediately think of price tracking. And fair enough — watching for competitor price changes is the most obvious use case and the one most tools market around. We've covered price monitoring in depth separately, and it's a genuinely valuable application.
But website monitoring is a much broader tool than that. Any time information lives on a web page that matters to your work, and you need to know when it changes, you have a monitoring use case. The common thread isn't commerce — it's that someone somewhere updates a webpage, and you need to know about it without manually refreshing every day.
This article covers five use cases that have nothing to do with prices. For each one, we walk through a real scenario, explain what to monitor, what kind of CSS selector works best, and what a meaningful alert looks like. These are use cases drawn from actual monitoring patterns — not hypotheticals.
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