Full Stack Audit vs Little Warden
Little Warden watches your pages for changes. Full Stack Audit grades how they are built. Here is how they differ, and when each one is the right pick.
Little Warden in short
Little Warden is a UK monitoring service built for SEO agencies. It runs a pre-launch checklist over and over and tells you when something changes: a title tag, a meta description, a canonical, robots.txt, a redirect, the analytics tag, a sitemap. It also tracks domain and SSL renewals, and its custom checks can watch any text or element on a page. Plans are priced by the number of URLs it patrols.
Full Stack Audit grades the page as it is rather than diffing it against yesterday. Each of its 127 checks says whether something is right, and how to fix it when it is not, across security headers and TLS, SEO, accessibility, Lighthouse, email authentication, DNS and privacy.
Feature by feature
| Feature | Full Stack Audit | Little Warden |
|---|---|---|
| Security headers and TLS configuration | YesHSTS, CSP and other headers, TLS versions and grade, certificate validity | PartlySSL certificate expiry |
| Lighthouse and Core Web Vitals | YesLighthouse in real Chrome, Core Web Vitals from Chrome UX Report data | PartlyCore Web Vitals |
| SEO: titles, canonicals, robots.txt, sitemaps, structured data | Yes | YesChange detection on titles, meta descriptions, canonicals, robots.txt and sitemaps |
| Email authentication: SPF, DKIM, DMARC | YesPlus BIMI and MTA-STS | PartlyMX record changes |
| DNS and domain expiry | YesDNSSEC, CAA, nameservers and domain expiry | Yes |
| Broken links and redirects | Yes | Yes |
| Uptime checks every minute | No | PartlyURL response checks |
| Cron jobs, servers and status pages | No | No |
| Scheduled re-checks | YesWeekly, every two weeks or monthly on the Free plan | Yes |
| Alerts | YesEmail, when a passing check starts failing | YesSlack, email and webhooks |
| API and AI agents | YesMCP server for AI agents such as Claude or Cursor | PartlyAPI from the Small Team plan up |
| Price | YesFree plan for one site | PartlyFrom £24.99/month for 20 URLs, 40-day free trial |
Other tools' features and prices as listed on their own websites on October 30, 2026. Prices exclude VAT.
Pick Little Warden if
- You manage many client sites and need to hear the moment someone edits a title, a canonical or robots.txt.
- You want custom checks on any text or element of a page.
- You want alerts in Slack or a webhook and changes exported to Google Sheets.
Pick Full Stack Audit if
- You want to know whether a page is right, not only whether it changed.
- You need security, email authentication and accessibility covered, not only SEO.
- You want to start free, and let an AI agent read the results through the MCP server.
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