Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage can host static websites from Wasabi buckets at up to 80% less than AWS S3 with no egress fees — but as an object storage service it has no WCAG accessibility audit, no Core Web Vitals scoring, and no post-deployment front-end quality monitoring. PageGuard audits any Wasabi-hosted website externally — free, no Wasabi account access needed, results in 30 seconds.
ADA Title II Deadline: April 24, 2026
State and local government websites must meet WCAG 2.1 AA by April 24, 2026. Government agencies, nonprofits, and educational institutions hosting public-facing static websites in Wasabi buckets face this compliance deadline. Automated deployments through GitHub Actions, rclone, or s3cmd can upload new HTML files to Wasabi buckets with accessibility regressions without any WCAG quality gate at the storage layer. PageGuard monitors the live production URL continuously without requiring Wasabi account access, access keys, or bucket modifications.
| Feature | PageGuard | Wasabi |
|---|---|---|
| What is it? | External website health monitor — scans any deployed URL for performance, accessibility, SEO, and best practices | Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage is an S3-compatible object storage service founded in 2017 by the creators of Carbonite, designed to offer cloud storage at dramatically lower cost than AWS S3 with no egress fees and no per-request fees; Wasabi's pricing model is simple: $6.99/TB/month (or $0.0068/GB/month) with free egress and free API requests, which the company claims makes it up to 80% cheaper than AWS S3 when factoring in data retrieval costs; Wasabi operates 12 regional data centers across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific (us-east-1, us-east-2, us-central-1, us-west-1, eu-central-1, eu-central-2, eu-west-1, eu-west-2, ap-northeast-1, ap-northeast-2, ap-southeast-1, ca-central-1); Wasabi is fully S3-compatible via its endpoint API (e.g., s3.wasabisys.com), working with the AWS SDK, rclone, s3cmd, Cyberduck, Veeam, MSP360, and Transmit; Wasabi can serve public static websites by setting bucket files to public-read ACL, with public bucket URLs accessible via the wasabisys.com endpoint or custom domains when served through a CDN; Wasabi enforces a 90-day minimum storage policy (data deleted before 90 days is still billed for the full 90-day period); Wasabi does not analyze the HTML content of files it stores — it is an object store that serves bytes without understanding HTML structure, accessibility requirements, or Core Web Vitals quality |
| Free tier | ✓ Yes — unlimited one-off scans, no signup required | Partial — Wasabi offers a 30-day free trial with 1 TB of free storage; after the trial, pricing is $6.99/TB/month with no egress fees and no per-request fees; the 90-day minimum storage policy means data deleted before 90 days is still billed; there is no built-in WCAG accessibility auditing or Core Web Vitals measurement for websites hosted in Wasabi buckets at any storage tier or pricing level |
| Accessibility audit (WCAG / ADA) | ✓ Yes — WCAG 2.1 AA scored 0–100 with specific issue list | No — Wasabi is an object storage service with no built-in WCAG or ADA accessibility auditing capability for websites hosted in its buckets; Wasabi stores and serves the HTML files uploaded to it but has no mechanism to parse, analyze, or score the accessibility quality of that HTML; Wasabi does not understand color contrast ratios, ARIA attribute usage, alt text presence, heading hierarchy, keyboard navigation, or any other WCAG 2.1 AA success criterion; the accessibility quality of a Wasabi-hosted website is entirely determined by the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files stored in the bucket — not by Wasabi itself |
| Technical SEO audit | ✓ Yes — meta tags, headings, canonical, structured data | No — Wasabi provides no SEO audit scores, meta tag validation, heading hierarchy analysis, canonical URL checking, or structured data verification for HTML files stored in its buckets; Wasabi serves files as-is without analyzing or validating their SEO quality; developers hosting websites in Wasabi must use separate SEO audit tools to verify the rendered HTML served to users and search engine crawlers; Wasabi also does not generate or validate robots.txt or sitemap.xml files |
| Performance audit (Core Web Vitals) | ✓ Yes — LCP, CLS, FCP scored 0–100 per scan | No — Wasabi provides no Core Web Vitals measurement (LCP, CLS, FCP, INP, TTFB) for websites hosted in its buckets; Wasabi bucket metrics focus on storage bytes used and API request counts — not browser-side user experience quality scores; Wasabi static site TTFB is affected by data center region proximity and whether a CDN (Cloudflare, Fastly, or another CDN) is placed in front of Wasabi — but Wasabi itself does not measure or report user-facing Core Web Vitals; measuring production Core Web Vitals for Wasabi-hosted sites requires external tooling |
| Ultra-low-cost S3-compatible storage (no egress fees) | No — PageGuard is an external monitoring tool, not an object storage or hosting service | ✓ Yes — Wasabi core differentiator: $6.99/TB/month with zero egress fees and zero per-request fees, claimed up to 80% cheaper than AWS S3 when accounting for data retrieval costs; S3-compatible API surface works with existing tooling (AWS SDK v2/v3, rclone, s3cmd, Veeam, MSP360, Cyberduck, Transmit, and hundreds of S3-compatible applications); 12 regional data centers across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific; immutable buckets with Object Lock (WORM) for compliance; Wasabi Compliance Lock for SEC 17a-4 and FINRA-compliant financial data storage; 3-2-1 backup integrations with Veeam, MSP360, Nakivo, Acronis, and CloudBerry Backup; HIPAA-eligible storage for healthcare workloads; no minimum data retention fee waiver — 90-day minimum storage policy applies |
| Automated website monitoring | ✓ Yes — weekly or daily scans with email alerts on score drop | No — Wasabi does not perform automated quality monitoring of WCAG compliance, Core Web Vitals, or SEO quality for websites hosted in its buckets; Wasabi provides storage usage dashboards, API activity logs, and billing metrics — not front-end accessibility regressions, Core Web Vitals degradation, or SEO issues in the HTML files stored in the bucket; automated front-end quality monitoring of Wasabi-hosted websites requires a separate external monitoring tool |
| AI-generated plain-English report | ✓ Yes — explains issues in non-technical language | No — Wasabi provides no AI-generated health report or plain-English explanation of front-end accessibility, SEO, or Core Web Vitals issues; the Wasabi console shows bucket storage usage, file list, access configuration, and API activity — not front-end quality analysis of the website content stored in the bucket |
| ADA Title II compliance monitoring | ✓ Yes — WCAG audit + alert on accessibility regression | No — Wasabi does not audit or alert on WCAG compliance for HTML files stored in its buckets; government agencies, nonprofits, and educational institutions hosting public-facing static websites in Wasabi buckets face ADA Title II compliance requirements with an April 24, 2026 deadline; automated deployments through GitHub Actions, rclone, or s3cmd can upload new HTML files to Wasabi buckets with accessibility regressions without any WCAG quality gate at the storage layer; continuous WCAG monitoring of the production URL requires a separate external tool like PageGuard |
| Works on any deployed platform | ✓ Yes — scans any URL on any hosting or platform | Wasabi serves content within its own regional infrastructure across 12 data centers; it does not scan or monitor the front-end quality of websites hosted on AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage, Cloudflare R2, Backblaze B2, DigitalOcean Spaces, or other storage and hosting platforms; Wasabi focuses exclusively on its own object storage operations without cross-platform front-end quality monitoring capability |
| Independent external audit | ✓ Yes — third-party scan, shareable URL for clients/stakeholders | No — Wasabi provides no built-in tool to generate a shareable external front-end health report for websites it hosts; the Wasabi console and API activity logs show bucket storage metrics, file transaction history, and billing data — not WCAG accessibility scores or Core Web Vitals quality scores shareable with clients, procurement teams, or ADA compliance auditors |
| Instant on-demand scan | ✓ Yes — results in 30 seconds, no code changes needed | No — no on-demand front-end health scan of websites hosted in Wasabi buckets; auditing a Wasabi-hosted website for WCAG accessibility, Core Web Vitals, or SEO quality requires running third-party tools against the public bucket URL or custom domain; Wasabi has no concept of scanning the HTML accessibility or performance quality of the static files stored in its buckets |
| Multi-site dashboard | ✓ Yes — 1–50 sites depending on plan | The Wasabi console shows all Wasabi buckets within an account with storage usage, file count, and access configuration — there is no cross-website front-end health dashboard showing WCAG compliance, SEO quality, or Core Web Vitals for multiple static websites hosted across Wasabi buckets |
| Pricing for health monitoring | ✓ Free + from $9/mo for automated monitoring | Front-end health monitoring not available — Wasabi storage at $6.99/TB/month ($0.0068/GB/month) with zero egress fees, zero per-request fees, and 30-day free trial; 90-day minimum storage policy applies; no front-end quality monitoring at any spend level |
Get WCAG accessibility scores and Core Web Vitals for any static website hosted on Wasabi. Results in 30 seconds. No Wasabi account access, access keys, or bucket modifications required.
Results in ~30 seconds. 4 scores: Performance, Accessibility, SEO, Best Practices.
Yes — PageGuard scans any public URL regardless of whether the website is hosted on Wasabi, AWS S3, Cloudflare R2, or any other platform. Paste your Wasabi website URL into PageGuard for a full health report covering WCAG accessibility, Core Web Vitals, SEO, and best practices in ~30 seconds. No Wasabi account, access keys, or bucket modifications required.
No — Wasabi is an object storage service that stores and serves files without analyzing their content quality. It has no built-in WCAG compliance checking, accessibility scoring, or front-end quality analysis for HTML files stored in its buckets. Wasabi provides storage usage statistics, API activity logs, and billing metrics — not browser-side user experience quality metrics. PageGuard audits the live rendered URL and provides a WCAG 2.1 AA score with specific issues to fix.
Yes — automated deployments through GitHub Actions, rclone, or s3cmd that upload new HTML files to a Wasabi bucket can introduce WCAG accessibility regressions without any quality gate at the storage layer. Static site generators (Hugo, Jekyll, Gatsby, Eleventy, Next.js) regenerating templates can break heading hierarchy, remove alt text from images, or introduce missing ARIA labels in the generated HTML. PageGuard's automated monitoring detects these front-end regressions in the live production URL after each deployment to Wasabi.
No — they serve completely different purposes. Wasabi is an ultra-affordable S3-compatible object storage service that stores and serves files at $6.99/TB/month with no egress fees across 12 regional data centers, enabling cost-effective static website hosting, backup storage, and media archival. PageGuard is an external quality monitoring tool that audits the front-end HTML delivered to users for WCAG compliance, Core Web Vitals, and SEO quality. Organizations hosting websites in Wasabi buckets should add PageGuard to continuously verify front-end health at the production URL after each deployment.