Watch Modes

Cheetah Ping offers three watch modes. Each one determines what part of the page is tracked for changes.

Page mode

Monitors the entire page content. You get alerted whenever any visible text on the page changes.

Best for:

• Blog posts and articles
• Terms of service or legal pages
• Landing pages you want to keep an eye on

Note: Page mode ignores ads, scripts, and other non-content elements. It focuses on the meaningful text content.

Keyword mode

Watches for a specific keyword or phrase to appear or disappear from the page.

Best for:

• Waiting for "in stock" to appear on a product page
• Watching for a specific job title on a careers page
• Monitoring for a price like "$99" to show up

How it works: each check scans the page text for your keyword. You get alerted when the keyword is found (or stops being found), depending on your configuration.

Selector mode

Tracks only a specific element on the page, identified by a CSS selector.

Best for:

• Price elements (e.g., .product-price)
• Specific sections of a page (e.g., #availability)
• Data tables or structured content

How it works: each check extracts the text content of the matched element and compares it to the previous snapshot. Changes elsewhere on the page are ignored.

For help choosing the right CSS selector, see the Selectors guide.