Why is website monitoring important?
Websites should be checked at regular intervals to ensure:
- Better availability.
- Website stability.
- Data security and integrity.
- Improved search engine results.
- Quick identification of bottlenecks.
- Faster load time.
- Better conversion rates.
- Performance optimization.
How does website monitoring work?
A website's performance and health are regularly checked as part of the website monitoring process to make sure it is accessible and operating without any problems.
Identification of KPIs for monitoring
Website accessibility, page load speeds, and reaction time are examples of essential metrics that should be emphasized in order to track the health of the website.
Deciding which locations to monitor the site from
The monitoring data will be collected from the chosen locations at regular frequencies to ensure availability across locations.
Data collection
Data is collected periodically to obtain details on the main performance metrics.
Root cause analysis and troubleshooting
Insights will be provided on critical issues, and guidance will be offered for troubleshooting.
Data analysis, alerting, and reporting
All the collected data will be collated on a common dashboard for analysis; alerts will be sent to keep all the stakeholders updated, and detailed reports will be generated.
What are the types of website monitoring?
There are several types of website monitoring, including:
Availability monitoring
Helps to ensure that the site is up and running.
Security monitoring
Analyzes the potential security threats and vulnerabilities.
API monitoring
Tracks the availability and performance of the APIs.
Performance monitoring
Verifies the factors that can affect the performance of a page, like the load time, response time, the performance of various elements on the page, etc.
What are the key areas you can monitor?
To keep track of your website's health, the following main aspects of a webpage can be monitored:
- The performance of your webpages, the time it takes for it to load, the performance of all the resources on the page, and more.
- The availability of TCP/IP ports.
- The performance of all the critical business transactions on your site.
- The validity and expiry of your SSL certificates can be closely monitored to avoid unexpected certificate expiries and security issues.
- The availability of your DNS servers can be tracked, and potential domain resolution errors can be identified.
What are the important metrics to be tracked?
Uptime
A measurement of the duration for which the page is available. Higher uptime stands for better business outcomes.
Downtime duration
The time of the outages.
Page load time
A measurement of how quickly the content loads.
Response time
A measure of how long it takes the server to reply to a request.
API response time
The time taken by an API to process a request and return a response.
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