What is Website Monitoring?
The term “Website Monitoring” often refers to a monitoring service like watchour.com that can also monitor Email, DNS and other servers. Compared to a physical product, Monitoring is a smoke alarm. It automatically detects the electronic smoke which may indicate a digital fire on your site, server or even routing equipment and then sends you an alert describing the problem.
When we talk about website monitoring we do mean a process of testing of interaction between website and a visitor. The reason of conducting website monitoring is to make sure that the site works properly and does not go down. Webmasters try to minimize downtime and make their sites convenient for end-users. But for any improvements it is crucial to have comprehensive information about bugs, therefore website monitoring tool is needed. The typical scheme of website monitoring is the following. A webmaster creates an account on website monitoring company. Next company is starting to check website with defined frequency. If website monitoring tool finds any problems on the website (accessibility, time of loading, etc.), webmaster will be informed by special notification. There are several different types of website monitoring. If we are taking into account from which side website is monitored there are inside and outside monitoring. There are also two other main types of website monitori
