Every share looks broken at the same time
Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack and WhatsApp read the same tags. One template change degrades all of them in a single deploy.
Open Graph monitoring
Heads-up
A shared link that reads “Untitled” is a change nobody caught
Open Graph tags are independent of the <title>, so a template change can rewrite or drop them without touching anything a search crawler would flag. The first sign is usually a link in Slack that looks wrong.
Heads-up severity: batched into your daily digest, because this costs clicks rather than indexation.
What it may cost you
Nothing about the page changes on screen. Only the preview does — on every platform at once.
The fallback is rarely flattering
With og:title missing, platforms fall back to the page title or the bare URL. Campaign links stop looking like campaign links.
Nobody owns the check
Social previews sit between marketing and engineering. They are inspected when someone complains, which is well after the sharing happened.
How an alert reaches you
Three steps, running every day, on something nobody looks at twice a year.
1
Every run
Baseline stored
The first crawl saves the four Open Graph tags on the monitored URL as it should be. That value is what every later run is compared against.
2
Next morning
Change detected
Each enabled og: tag is extracted from <head> and compared, checking there is exactly one of it.
3
Daily digest
Alert in your digest
Heads-up findings are batched into one email, so this never buries an alert that needed you an hour ago.
You decide what counts as broken
The stored value is your desired state, not a guess. When a later run differs you get both versions side by side — and if the change was intentional, one click adopts it as the new baseline.
Severity matches the damage
This one waits for the daily digest by default, so it never competes with an alert that needed you immediately. Raise it to Danger per site if it matters more to you.
Set it once, then leave it
Pick the frequency and the user agent Wygard should send, switch on JS rendering if your pages need it, and the rest needs no attention.
What we check
Four checks, off by default and bundled as one selection group so you can turn them on together.
| Test | What it catches | Scope | Severity |
|---|---|---|---|
| og:title | The headline shown when the URL is shared changed, disappeared, or appeared twice. | URL · Basic | Heads-up |
| og:description | The preview text under the headline drifted from what you shipped. | URL · Basic | Heads-up |
| og:image | The preview image reference changed or was removed. | URL · Basic | Heads-up |
| og:url | The canonical address the preview points at changed. | URL · Basic | Heads-up |
Questions about open graph monitoring
What the checks do, and what they don’t.
Do I have to enable all four
No, but they ship as a selection group so one click covers the whole set. Individual tests can stay off.
Are Twitter cards covered
Not yet — twitter:* tags are on the roadmap. Most platforms fall back to Open Graph in the meantime.
Why Heads-up rather than Danger
A broken preview costs engagement on shared links, not indexation. It is worth reviewing in the daily digest.
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