Site24×7 Blogs

Author: Arun

Any business web site owner or webmaster will know the perils of slow-loading web pages and what they can do to drive away users from the web site. One of their main concerns should be to ensure their web pages are loading fast enough for the users. Sometimes the web page might load fast enough for some users but not all users might share the same experience. It is therefore important to have a look at things from an end-user perspective.

Here is where the Web Page Analyzer monitor (WPA) can help. It will let you understand how exactly your web page loads the first time, from an end-user perspective. It downloads the full content of your web page including the header and all HTML contents, and objects including images, css, java scripts, etc. It provides you with the total load time of the web page as well as the individual load times of all its components.

You can find out how fast your page is loading, which component is slowing down your page, how to improve page load time, etc. The web page summary section provides insightful data such as total page load time, total page size, total objects, images, css, java scripts, etc.

The WPA is more advanced than a web site monitor. Basic web site monitoring only monitors the uptime and performance of websites, but the WPA can do much more. It helps you find out how much each component is contributing to the total response time of a web page. You can check if the image/script/css count of your home page exceeds a certain limit, or if the image size increases beyond an upper limit, or if the image size changes, etc.

What is your opinion of the Web Page Analyzer (WPA)? Let us know your feedback.

Author: Arun

As we mentioned in one of our earlier posts here, we frequently get to read some articles about Site24×7 in languages other than English. Here are couple of recent such posts from the blogosphere.

The first is in French. The article is titled “Les outils indispensables pour un blog (7/9): Site24×7” and appears in SimpleEntrepreneur site. The title when translated into English reads “Essential tools for a blog (7/9): Site24×7″. The post is in fact one among a series of posts that discuss about certain essential tools required by a blog owner. The other services mentioned here include Technorati, Google Analytics, Crazy Egg, etc. Hmm, we got some nice company here for sure!!

Here are a few excerpts from this article:

Basically this article mentions Site24×7’s ability to analyze the availability of a blog or site at regular time intervals and to send out alerts if they become inaccessible or down. It also mentions about our alert mechanism which includes email, SMS and RSS alerts.

Read full article here.

The second article is in German and it appears in ‘Server Monitoring’ blog. The post is titled “Site24×7 - Servermonitoring Web 2.0″ and it can be read here.

Thanks for writing about us, guys!!

Author: Arun

We are upgrading our datacenter infrastructure and Site24×7 will be down on October 13, 2007 between 10:00 hrs PDT to 16:00 hrs PDT. During this time, you will not be able to access Site24×7 and your websites and applications will not be monitored.

Please note, this downtime will not be reflected in your reports.

We apologize for the short notice and any inconvenience this may cause you.

Update: Maintenance complete.

Note: Edited for clarity.

Author: Arun

There are some occasions when you may want to take your web site, web application or e-mail server offline for some upgrade or maintenance purpose. In such cases, you will receive notifications indicating that the site, or the application are unavailable. Since the site is not available when pinged during the maintenance period, unnecessary notifications are sent. To prevent your sites or apps from being monitored for status during maintenance, you can schedule a maintenance task for such monitors.

To schedule a maintenance task, click ‘Schedule Maintenance->Add Schedule’ link. Provide details such as schedule name, description, recurrence details (i.e. daily, weekly or once), start and end times. All the monitors configured in your account will be listed in the ‘Available Monitors’ box. Select the required monitors and move it to the ‘Selected Monitors’ box. Click the ‘Add’ button to complete the configuration. The details of the schedule can then be seen from the ‘Schedule Details’ section under ‘Alerts’ tab.

Once the schedule is activated, you will not receive notifications from Site24×7 during that time period.

What’s your take on the ‘Schedule Maintenance’ enhancement? Pour in your feedback to support@site24×7.com

Author: Arun

We recently came across a nice little article about Site24×7 in the blogosphere. This one is by Ajay Prabhu and is basically a short review of Site24×7’s web site monitoring service. This article mentions almost all of Site24×7’s basic features. Of course, we frequently come up with newer features and enhancements such as the ones in our recent update.

Here are a few excerpts from his article:

What Company is Offering:
Site24×7 checks for the response time and availability of your website. For example, you can add a URL, say http://mycommerce.com, for monitoring. You can set a threshold for a web page such that - if the page load time of that page is more than 3 seconds, you should be notified through EMail, SMS and RSS. This helps you in taking quick action before it affects end users.

Read full article here.

Thanks for the post, Ajay!

Feedmyapp has recently listed Site24×7 among Web 2.0 tools. This is a site dedicated to listing and reviewing Web 2.0 services and its nice to be listed here.

Read full article here.

Thanks for reviewing us!