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In Swedish the same service is called Delfinkoll (delfinkoll.se).<\/p>\n\n<p>What is monitored:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Uptime, every minute.<\/strong> An email after a confirmed failure, also when the page shows an error message, and again when it works.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Certificate, daily.<\/strong> Reminders 30, 14, 7 and 1 day before the HTTPS certificate expires.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Domain, daily.<\/strong> Reminders 60, 30 and 14 days before the domain expires, and an alert when its name servers, mail servers or registrar change.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Email settings, weekly.<\/strong> Whether SPF or DMARC is missing for your domain, or its mail server is on a blocklist.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Links and images, weekly.<\/strong> Broken links and images, on up to 500 pages.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Known vulnerable versions, daily.<\/strong> Known security notices for your WordPress version and for plugins and themes that can be seen in your public pages.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Monthly report.<\/strong> Uptime and outages, even when everything worked.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Monitoring is an early warning, not a guarantee of security. It does not install updates, remove malware or test forms and purchases.<\/p>\n\n<p>What the plugin does:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Settings \u2192 SiteDolphin<\/strong> explains the checks and has a <strong>Start monitoring<\/strong> button. It opens sitedolphin.com (delfinkoll.se for Swedish admins) in a new tab with your website address filled in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dashboard status (optional).<\/strong> If you already monitor the website, paste the read-only status key from your account. The WordPress dashboard then shows whether the website is up, days left on the certificate and domain, and the number of things to fix, with a link to the full report.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>The checks themselves run on SiteDolphin's servers. The plugin adds nothing to your public pages, adds no credit links, and has no tracking or telemetry.<\/p>\n\n<p>Monitoring is a paid subscription that you start and manage on sitedolphin.com, where the price is shown before you pay. The plugin itself is free, has no locked features and never takes payment.<\/p>\n\n<h3>External services<\/h3>\n\n<p>This plugin connects to SiteDolphin (https:\/\/sitedolphin.com, in Swedish Delfinkoll, https:\/\/delfinkoll.se), the website-monitoring service that runs the checks.<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Start monitoring button.<\/strong> A normal link. When you click it, your browser opens the SiteDolphin subscribe page with your website's host name (for example example.com) in the address, plus utm_source=wordpress and utm_medium=plugin. Nothing is sent before you click.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dashboard status.<\/strong> Only after you save a status key on the settings page, WordPress requests https:\/\/sitedolphin.com\/api\/v1\/site-status (https:\/\/delfinkoll.se\/api\/v1\/site-status for Swedish admins) with the key in the Authorization header. The request is made at most every 10 minutes and only while an administrator views the dashboard or the plugin's settings page. Only the key is sent; the user agent names the plugin and its version, not your website. No data about your visitors, users or content is sent. The response contains the monitoring status, days left on the certificate and domain, the number of things to fix, and the time of the latest check. Removing the key stops all requests.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Terms of service: https:\/\/sitedolphin.com\/terms (Swedish: https:\/\/delfinkoll.se\/terms)\nPrivacy policy: https:\/\/sitedolphin.com\/privacy (Swedish: https:\/\/delfinkoll.se\/privacy)<\/p>\n\n<!--section=installation-->\n<ol>\n<li>Install and activate the plugin.<\/li>\n<li>Go to <strong>Settings \u2192 SiteDolphin<\/strong> and read what is monitored.<\/li>\n<li>Click <strong>Start monitoring<\/strong> to set up monitoring on sitedolphin.com.<\/li>\n<li>Optional: in your SiteDolphin account, open the website's report, create a status key under <strong>WordPress plugin<\/strong>, and paste it on the settings page.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<!--section=faq-->\n<dl>\n<dt id=\"do%20i%20need%20this%20plugin%20to%20use%20sitedolphin%3F\"><h3>Do I need this plugin to use SiteDolphin?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>No. All checks run from the outside, so any public website can be monitored without installing anything. The plugin explains the service, starts it with your address filled in, and shows the status on your dashboard.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"does%20the%20plugin%20slow%20down%20my%20website%3F\"><h3>Does the plugin slow down my website?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>No. It adds nothing to your public pages. The only request it makes is the optional status fetch from the admin dashboard, cached for 10 minutes.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"what%20can%20the%20status%20key%20do%3F\"><h3>What can the status key do?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>It can only read the status of the one website it was created for. It cannot change anything and shows nothing about you. You can replace or remove it in your account at any time.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"can%20i%20use%20it%20on%20a%20local%20or%20staging%20website%3F\"><h3>Can I use it on a local or staging website?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>The settings page works, but monitoring needs an address that can be reached from the internet, so start monitoring from the live website.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"can%20the%20plugin%20be%20translated%3F\"><h3>Can the plugin be translated?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>Yes, at translate.wordpress.org. 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