Sites and Pages

Scout organizes work as Site → Page → Scan. A site groups one website's defaults, pages, uptime signals, recipients, custom rules, and usage forecast. Each page has its own monitoring state and scan history.

Site count and monitored-page capacity are different limits. The Free plan includes one site. Monitored-page slots are counted across every site in the account, so paid accounts can divide their available pages among multiple sites.

The New Site wizard looks for sitemaps and useful same-domain links, ranks the candidates, and lets you choose what to save. After the site exists, Add Pages accepts a list of known URLs.

• Use the onboarding recommendations as a starting point, not as a complete inventory.
• Paste one URL per line when adding known pages later.
• Only the original site domain is accepted; subdomains and external domains are skipped.
• Duplicate URLs are not added again, and pages beyond the available slot limit are saved inactive.

Active pages count toward the account-wide monitored-page limit on your plan. They can run scheduled and manual scans. Inactive pages keep their settings and history, but cannot run scans until you reactivate them.

If a plan change leaves you over the active-page limit, Scout places monitoring on hold and asks you to choose which pages should remain active. Deactivate lower-priority pages until usage fits the available slots.

Site settings define the normal scan frequency, device mode, scheduling preferences, and notification behavior. A page can choose Use site settings or replace an individual setting.

Inherit

The page follows the current site setting automatically.

Override

The page keeps its own frequency, device, schedule preferences, or notification mode until you change it back.

Best practice

Set sensible site defaults, then override only exceptional pages such as checkout or campaign pages.

Deactivation is reversible. Deletion is not the same: deleting a page removes its scan history and stored artifacts, and deleting a site removes the site and all of its related history.