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Load Testing: A Brief Overview

While many of our customers may be accustomed to how uptime/downtime monitoring works, they may not be familiar with load testing and why it’s so important. The purpose of this blog post is to provide an overview of load testing, stress testing, and look at various ways that it can be used to improve website [...]

By | July 6th, 2017|Load Testing, Website Down|Comments Off on Load Testing: A Brief Overview

5 Common Causes of Website Downtime

What's Causing Your Website Downtime? Having a website that's constantly going down or becoming unavailable can be incredibly frustrating for both users and webmasters. These frustrations can mean your followership may chose to abandon your website, losing valuable traffic and ultimately revenues for your website. There are a number of reasons that a website may [...]

By | August 7th, 2014|Website Down|Comments Off on 5 Common Causes of Website Downtime

Uptime Monitoring: Holding Your Web Hosting Company to their SLA

The Benefits of Uptime Monitoring Are you considering uptime monitoring, but don't know if it will be useful enough? Well, beyond knowing when your site is up/down and being able to proactively take care of problems, you could be costing yourself money every month by not holding your web host accountable to their service level [...]

By | July 30th, 2014|Website Monitoring|Comments Off on Uptime Monitoring: Holding Your Web Hosting Company to their SLA

How Frequently Should You Monitor Your Website?

Selecting the right website monitoring frequency is a matter of individual performance requirements and ROI. Optimum Frequency to Monitor Website State Changes Website monitoring frequency is something that's been debated among e-commerce and web performance junkies for years. Perhaps you're wondering, "What is the optimum frequency to monitor website state changes such as [...]

By | July 2nd, 2014|Website Monitoring|Comments Off on How Frequently Should You Monitor Your Website?

User Experience Monitoring: How do Users React to a Website Outage?

Monitoring your website for uptime/downtime provides a consistent user experience that keeps your customers happy.   Keeping your End Users Happy End Users, readers, website visitors... whatever term you'd like to use, these are people who visit your site; people who have power to make your site popular or unpopular—people who have the [...]

By | June 12th, 2014|Website Down, Website Monitoring|Comments Off on User Experience Monitoring: How do Users React to a Website Outage?