What Type of Web Monitoring Service Does Your Website Need?

  What Type of Web Monitoring Service Does Your Website Need?

 

Internet Website monitoring is a term used for the process of testing and verifying the availability, performance and functionality of your website. It is a tool that allows assessing of the users experience with your site and verifying if the users are interacting with your site as expected. Though website monitoring is important, some websites have not given it serious thought nor put in place an appropriate monitoring system. For some websites, their employees may check it periodically and bring issues to the notice of the webmaster. Such types of site checks are sporadic, inefficient and time consuming. Moreover, manual testing cannot assess all the variables that influence a site’s availability and performance. You need an automated method to improve the quality and efficiency of website monitoring. Not only will a monitoring service track the uptime and other performance metrics of the website from time to time but also the service will immediately report if a page or a website element fails to work as expected. Services that you can expect from a decent website monitoring service are outlined below. Uptime monitoring The role of uptime monitoring is making sure your website i

 accessible and to some extent uptime monitoring also checks for some basic functionality of the site. Another important aspect of this type of monitoring is to check whether the website is available from different locations around the globe. Uptime monitoring service providers maintain their monitoring servers at different places around the world to enable this functionality. Performance monitoring Today, internet users are impatient. Whether they are trying to load your website from a desktop or a mobile they want it to load fast. Therefore, tracking speed or performance of your site is important. Service providers will monitor browser load time and connection speed. They will check if each element of a page is downloaded properly or not. If there is any error, missing content or slow performance then alerts will be sent out. Website performance enables good user experience and performance monitoring is done to keep an eye on this aspect of customer interaction with your

 website. Functionality monitoring Various errors and issues could be preventing your website from working correctly thereby causing much inconvenience and irritating your website’s visitors. Such problems cannot be detected with performance or uptime monitoring functionality. For monitoring sites for functionality, the service providers of website monitoring create scripts that simulate the interaction of the users with the various features of your website and its web applications. If the performance of the website functionality is not as per the pre-defined scripts, the monitoring system will generate alerts and inform you which specific functionality is not working as expected. Internal monitoring