New Relic is a full-stack observability platform for engineering teams. PageGuard monitors your site’s public-facing health — WCAG accessibility, Core Web Vitals, SEO, and ADA compliance — with zero agent installation required.
ADA Title II Deadline: April 24, 2026
State and local government websites must meet WCAG 2.1 AA. New Relic monitors app performance but provides no accessibility auditing or ADA compliance monitoring. PageGuard monitors accessibility continuously — alerting you before violations occur.
| Feature | PageGuard | New Relic |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ✓ Free + from $9/mo (automated website health monitoring) | Free tier limited; paid plans from $49/mo+; enterprise pricing opaque |
| Who is it for? | Small businesses, designers, agencies — frontend health, ADA compliance & SEO | Engineering teams needing full-stack observability: APM, logs, traces, infrastructure |
| Accessibility audit (WCAG / ADA) | ✓ Yes — WCAG 2.1 AA scored 0–100 with specific issue list | No — no accessibility scoring or WCAG compliance checks |
| Technical SEO audit | ✓ Yes — meta tags, headings, canonical, structured data, robots.txt | No — no SEO auditing capabilities |
| Performance scoring (Core Web Vitals) | ✓ Yes — LCP, CLS, FCP scored 0–100 with fix recommendations | Partial — browser monitoring measures page load times, not WCAG Core Web Vitals scoring |
| Application performance monitoring (APM) | No — focuses on public-facing HTML health, not server-side | ✓ Yes — full APM: distributed traces, error rates, throughput, SLAs |
| Infrastructure & log monitoring | No — scans public HTML only | ✓ Yes — servers, containers, Kubernetes, cloud, logs, alerts |
| Requires installation / agent | ✓ No — zero setup, scan any public URL instantly | Yes — requires installing language agents (Java, Node, Python, Ruby, etc.) in your app |
| ADA Title II compliance monitoring | ✓ Yes — WCAG audit + automated email alert on accessibility regression | No — no ADA compliance features |
| Continuous automated monitoring & alerts | Yes — weekly or daily scans with email alerts on score drops | Yes — real-time alerting on error rates, latency, and custom thresholds |
| Best Practices audit (HTTPS, security headers) | ✓ Yes — HTTPS enforcement, security headers, image optimisation | No — no front-end best practices auditing |
| No-signup instant scan | ✓ Yes — scan any URL in ~30 seconds, no account required | No — requires account, agent installation, and app instrumentation |
| AI-generated plain-English report | ✓ Yes — explains technical issues in non-technical language | No — telemetry data requires engineering expertise to interpret |
| Multi-site management | Yes — monitor up to 50 sites from $9/mo | Yes — monitors multiple apps and services in one account |
| REST API | Yes — available on Pro ($29/mo) and Agency ($79/mo) plans | Yes — comprehensive NerdGraph (GraphQL) API and REST APIs |
Unlike New Relic, no agent, no code changes, no signup required. Performance + Accessibility + SEO + Best Practices scored in 30 seconds.
Results in ~30 seconds. 4 scores: Performance, Accessibility, SEO, Best Practices.
They solve different problems. New Relic is a full-stack observability platform for engineering teams — APM, distributed traces, infrastructure monitoring, and log management. PageGuard is a website health monitoring tool — WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility scoring, Core Web Vitals, technical SEO, and ADA compliance alerts. Many teams use both: New Relic for server-side reliability, PageGuard for ensuring the public-facing website is technically healthy and accessible.
No — New Relic does not provide WCAG 2.1 AA compliance scoring or ADA accessibility monitoring. New Relic is an observability platform focused on application performance and infrastructure. With the ADA Title II deadline on April 24, 2026 requiring WCAG 2.1 AA compliance, PageGuard provides the accessibility monitoring that New Relic cannot.
PageGuard is free for on-demand website health audits — no agent, no code changes, no account required. While New Relic requires installing language-specific agents inside your application, PageGuard requires zero changes to your codebase: just enter a public URL and receive scored results covering Performance, Accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA), SEO, and Best Practices in ~30 seconds. Automated monitoring starts at $9/month.
Yes — they are complementary tools. Use New Relic for server-side observability (APM, error tracking, infrastructure, logs) and PageGuard for front-end health monitoring (accessibility audit, SEO audit, Core Web Vitals, ADA compliance). Together they provide complete visibility: New Relic for “is the application running correctly”, PageGuard for “is the website healthy and compliant for all users”.