Website Monitoring
Website monitoring is a method by which the websites are checked and watched round the clock. The methodology is commonly used and adapted by businesses and companies to ensure that their website is all the time accessible to all the customers around the world. The mechanism normally checks the functionality of the various online applications, search engines, payment system, online shopping and so on.
The main purpose of using the system is to reduce or to avoid downtime and ensure non-stop running of all the applications. Response time, uptime, consistency, performance and reliability are the various metrics which are measured in order to check the availability of the website for worldwide customers.
Website monitoring can be applied and used for one single page or for the whole website. If the website is quite large, businesses prefer to monitor only the pages which are more sensitive and which require keen attention. Any change or error noted in the system would raise an alert and the alert would be sent as a message to the website owner.
Website monitoring can be done from within the firewall or from outside as well. The traditional method of monitoring the working mechanism of a system from inside but monitoring of the website from the outside the firewall enables monitoring of the whole system which is also called as end-user monitoring.
The website monitors periodically check the servers which might range from once per minute to once per hour. The reports generated during the process are sent immediately to the website owner as the problems detected are usually serious and which need immediate attention. This is taken as a measure to reduce the downtime of the website. Considering the urgency involved, the alerts are sent either through emails or fax or phone or SMS or even through pagers.
The process is found to be effective in almost all the places where it has been adopted and is gaining increasing fame in the case of websites which are exclusively used for businesses. We at XEL Web Design recommend the use of website monitors to monitor the websites.
