The key to the success of any website is its availability, which is usually called “uptime.” This indicator is used in two cases. As a measure of the constant availability of the website and as a metric for ranking the website by search engines. Therefore, for any webmaster or website owner, it is important to keep the uptime value as close as possible to 100%.
A website inaccessible to users will negate all promotion efforts. Advertising campaigns will not work, audiences will leave the website, and new users will not come. Therefore, the webmaster needs to constantly monitor the website. This will help the webmaster to always be aware of the state of the website and quickly respond to problems.
Effective toolkit for monitoring websites
Typically, webmasters use different monitoring software. The webmaster will be in need of doing a lot of checks and tests manually to cope with occuring problems. So this approach is ineffective, especially if the webmaster needs to monitor a complex website, for example, an online store. Also, such an approach causes difficulties for the webmaster if you need to monitor several websites at the same time.
In such cases, the webmaster will operate with low efficiency. Since the webmaster will need to study many reports from monitoring programs to find the source of the problem. In order to avoid this, it is best to use automatic monitoring systems for websites, for example, HostTracker. They increase the speed of the webmaster’s response to website problems. And at the same time, the uptime of the website and other indicators are increasing.
Useful website monitoring tools
HostTracker monitoring system combines a large number of various services, checks and tests. They help the webmaster find the source of website problems and fix them as efficiently as possible. The system includes checks of availability of the website through various Internet protocols, PING, PING and HTTP (s) service, diagnostics of speed of the website, integrity of data on pages and databases, existence of the website in DNSBL blacklists and many other tools. All those tools work well with each other and the system logs all the results.
The system conducts checks in random order from different points of the world. The system also duplicates checks to confirm problems with the website. The service collects all information in informative reports. And in case of real problems, the system sends a message to the webmaster. The instant notification service works with all known instant messengers like Skype and Telegram. And if the webmaster is offline, the system can call or send an SMS. And it reports all the necessary information to the webmaster. Therefore, the webmaster can quickly find the source of the problem and correct the functioning of the website.
