Website Monitoring
Why is my website response time too high from China?
If your website is hosted outside China and you have chosen China as the location for monitoring, then the website response time will be high. This is because of the Great Firewall policy followed by China wherein, all the data coming from outside ...
How do I check if URL redirection works correctly using the Website Monitor?
A webpage can be made available from more than a single web address using URL redirection. Most redirects are automated and it becomes difficult to track if the redirection works in a specific way. This can be verified using website monitoring in ...
Response time and its components
Response time is comprised of five major components namely DNS time, connection time, SSL Handshake Time, first byte and Download time. Let us consider a scenario to further explain these terms: A website zoho.com is monitored by Site24x7. Firstly, ...
Difference between a website monitor and a SOAP Web Service monitor
Website monitor will support monitoring of any web application via POST, GET and HEAD methods of configuration. Learn more on the performance metrics provided for a website monitor. SOAP Web Service monitors , on the other hand, lets you to ...
Difference between website monitoring and REST API monitoring
Website monitoring allows you to monitor your websites and web applications to ensure that they are up and running. Website monitor verifies the availability of specified, addressable, standard HTTP and HTTPS URLs from over 100+ global locations and ...
Default ports for both inbound and outbound connections in various website and internet service monitors
Below are the various ports for both inbound and outbound connections: Website - 80 Web Transaction - 443 FTP Server - 21 IMAP Server - 143, but SSL/TLS encrypted IMAP uses port 993. POP Server - 110, but SSL/TLS encrypted POP uses port 995. SMTP ...
Setting up a website monitor w.r.t content match and HTTP configuration
Regarding the website defacement (content match) configuration, you can set keyword checks to find the existence and non-existence of keywords in your HTML response. As far as the HTTP configurations are concerned, we support HEAD, GET, and POST ...
Compare our various methodologies for Website Monitoring
Get to know Site24x7 monitors better and choose the one that best fits your monitoring needs. Compare the functionality of the following monitors: Website Monitoring Web Page Speed (Browser) Web Transaction Monitoring Web Transaction (Browser) ...
Why do I observe a spike in my website response time?
Response time is a combination of DNS time, connection time, SSL Handshake time (for HTTPS) and download time. Spikes in response time could be due to increase in DNS time or connection time or download time. Some factors to consider: In case of ...
Meaning of the trouble message - "Content Length Modified"
Under Threshold Configuration, if you have the option 'Notify when website content modified' selected, then any minor textual change on your website will reflect as a trouble alert. In the Site24x7 portal, Log in and navigate to Admin > ...
Exclude Site24x7 monitoring traffic from Google Analytics
You can exclude traffic from Site24x7 Web Transaction (Browser) monitor and Web Page Speed Browser in two ways. To exclude traffic for the Web Defacement monitor, you can follow the first method. 1. Create a filter in Google Analytics for Site24x7 ...
Monitor websites that require a HTTP POST to determine availability
You can monitor websites that require HTTP POST to determine availability. You can configure HTTP request methods to be passed (POST/GET/HEAD/POST XML) under the HTTP Configuration while adding a monitor itself. Log in to the Site24x7 client and ...
Possible reasons for website unavailability
Site24x7 monitors the availability of your website by sending an HTTP request to the webserver and checks the status code of the returned response. A 200 OK success response indicates that the website is available. We will consider a website as ...
Response time in Website monitoring
In website monitoring, response time is calculated as the total time taken to resolve the DNS, complete the TCP hand-shake, negotiate an SSL handshake (for HTTPS) and download the full HTML output from the server. However, it does not include getting ...
Monitor database issues for OpenCart or Joomla websites
Database issues for websites developed using OpenCart or Joomla can be identified by enabling a Content Match. Configure your website response such that a particular text is always present during all success responses and absent during all error ...