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Deciding whether your website needs to be monitored Using Two Powerful Website performance tools

Topic: Internet MarketingPublished March 14, 2013

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In this age everything is available on the net, effortlessly. Click and you have the solutions and answers to your queries. Whether you want to know, want to shop, want any information, reach to different people anywhere in the world, everything is just one click away. Now to maintain this easiness of operating systems, the websites need to be up-to-date. A little problem in the system and you are in for trouble business wise. How Website downtime can affect your business? A slowdown or outage in a website can be detrimental for your business. Site-monitoring tools can't prevent problems, but they can let you know when something goes ill. Normally visitors viewing sites find out the issue much before the owner knows and recognizing this a little late will have the damage already done to your business. Your company is losing out on the number of guests, who out of frustration have already checked different sites. Thus any problem minor or major needs a quick fix. Know about website monitoring rnWith the help of a website monitoring service you’ll be able to know if your domain is responding adequately or not. If not, then chances are quite likely that it has been hacked, hijacked or blacklisted. It is recommended to hand over monitoring to a reliable solutions like Monitor Scout who will identify the problem and let the owner know even before it reaches the potential clients. Also another issue that needs a closer look is speed of the site page. That can be affected due to many reasons, like the server, area accessed from, and number of items on a page and so on. To fix these two topics, website monitoring is considered the best available option. Multiple tools are available to automate site availability checks and security checks. Let’s have a look at the ways available to solve these problems. 1 PING The process between the echo request sent and receiving the respond determines the connection class. The ICMP data can get lost in the way hence the reply may not be available. The correct time taken would be as little as 5 seconds to receive the answer. If a number of pings stop responding then the host may be lost and website not accessible for use. 2 HTTP rnThere are websites that don’t react to the above method; hence they choose the HTTP method. Also this helps incase of issues other than described above. Here the website owner uses the actual webpage with help of HTTP protocol. The process helps regain the page back. Generally speaking, with the help of a website monitoring service like Monitor Scout you’ll be able to keep a watch on your website at frequency as low as one minute. Monitoring solutions from Monitor Scout are available across the globe and deserves a special mention for the frequency at it executes the monitoring checks. Having different server can help find out how the service provided is throughout the globe. After all, the more the locations, the better picture on the website availability you can expect. On an average, a number up to three servers is enough to give a very good check on the issues.

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Jennifer Hughes has a graduate degree in Management & Technology. She started her career with Monitor Scout as a technical writer. She has expertise in server and website monitoring technology with keen interest in social media and jou alism. You can follow her at twitter@MonitorScout.

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