Today, many companies use the famous monitoring technique for a website. Discover in detail in this article the advantages, the methods, the tools, the warning signals , the price and the frequency to adjust.
Alexis Le Baron
To begin with, monitoring a website allows you to check at a certain frequency if a web application is :
Indeed, this technique is useful to react quickly if a problem occurs thanks to an alert system.
It is also a reliable way to measure daily the evolution of a website's performance. For example, if a developer applies a new feature, the monitoring can detect a regression on the speed of page loading.
Moreover, companies today are increasingly looking for an improved user experience to boost their sales. Monitoring is a piece of the puzzle that can have a positive effect on this.
Be careful not to confuse monitoring with the supervision of a server which allows to control the components of a machine.
There are several monitoring methods and several tools to carry it out. Discover in this article our advice as well as a comparison of the software to use.
As soon as you monitor a website, you have to define a frequency where the measurements will be carried out.
A website with a high traffic is monitored more often than a site with only a few users per day.
Indeed, we adjust this frequency according to the probability that a user uses your website.
EVERY HOUR
EVERY 5 MINUTES
EVERY MINUTES
Following a fire at your host, your website is no longer available when you type its address in your browser.
Thanks to monitoring, you will receive a notification according to your preferences, either by :
This notification informs you that your server is not responding. Thus, you got the information quickly to solve the problem.
An escalating alert also allows you to predict certain malfunctions.
To conclude, these messages are valuable to react quickly and keep your website online.
Today there are 2 monitoring methods for a website.
This method is used for simple websites such as
The test consists in making a request on one or several pages of a website.
Moreover, the sitemap of the website is an element often used to recover the tested URLs.
When a request is made :
Note that these tests are saved according to the frequency you have defined.
You then get a graph that gives you an overview of the health of your website.
This method is used for more complex websites like :
The test consists of simulating one or more user paths on a website.
For example :
These tests are done with automated web browsers (sometimes implemented with Selenium).
Moreover, you can know if your website works well on :
Moreover, these scenarios are also timed to compare the speed according to a period.
Graphs allow you to compare these latencies.
Find our 3 favorite tools to monitor a website.
| Test pages | No |
|---|---|
| Test duration interval | No |
| Simple monitoring | No |
| Scripted monitoring | No |
| E-mail alert | No |
| SMS Alert | No |
| Price | From 16,17 € |
|---|---|
| Test pages | Tailor-made |
| Test duration interval | 1 to 60 minutes |
| Simple monitoring | Yes |
| Scripted monitoring | Yes |
| E-mail alert | Yes |
| SMS Alert | Tailor-made |
| Phone call alert | Tailor-made |
| Price | From € 38.65 |
|---|---|
| Test pages | Tailor-made |
| Test duration interval | 1 to 60 minutes |
| Simple monitoring | Yes |
| Supervised monitoring | Yes |
| E-mail alert | Yes |
| SMS Alert | Tailor-made |
| Phone call alert | Tailor-made |
| Test pages | 50 |
|---|---|
| Test duration interval | 5 minutes |
| Simple monitoring | Yes |
| Scripted monitoring | No |
| E-mail alert | Yes |
| SMS Alert | No |
| Price | =~ 15€ |
|---|---|
| Test pages | 50 (and tailor-made) |
| Test duration interval | 1 minute |
| Simple monitoring | Yes |
| Scripted monitoring | No |
| E-mail alert | Yes |
| SMS Alert | 20 |
| Phone call alert | 20 |
| Price | Sur devis |
|---|---|
| Test pages | Tailor-made |
| Test duration interval | 1 minute |
| Simple monitoring | Yes |
| Supervised monitoring | No |
| E-mail alert | Yes |
| SMS Alert | Tailor-made |
| Phone call alert | Tailor-made |
| Test pages | 10 |
|---|---|
| Test duration interval | 5 minutes |
| Simple monitoring | Yes |
| Scripted monitoring | No |
| E-mail alert | Yes |
| SMS Alert | No |
| Price | 19.99€ |
|---|---|
| Test pages | 100 |
| Test duration interval | 1 minute |
| Simple monitoring | Yes |
| Scripted monitoring | No |
| E-mail alert | Yes |
| SMS Alert | 75 |
| Phone call alert | No |
| Price | 69.99€ |
|---|---|
| Test pages | 300 |
| Test duration interval | 1 minute |
| Simple monitoring | Yes |
| Supervised monitoring | No |
| E-mail alert | Yes |
| SMS Alert | 400 |
| Phone call alert | Yes |
| Uptrends | UptimeRobot | Statuscake | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plans | |||
| Free plan | |||
| Test pages | No | 50 | 10 |
| Test duration interval | No | 5 minutes | 5 minutes |
| Simple monitoring | No | Yes | Yes |
| Scripted monitoring | No | No | No |
| E-mail alert | No | Yes | Yes |
| SMS Alert | No | No | No |
| Plan Pro | |||
| Price | From 16,17 € | =~ 15€ | 19.99€ |
| Test pages | Tailor-made | 50 (and tailor-made) | 100 |
| Test duration interval | 1 to 60 minutes | 1 minute | 1 minute |
| Simple monitoring | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Scripted monitoring | Yes | No | No |
| E-mail alert | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SMS Alert | Tailor-made | 20 | 75 |
| Phone call alert | Tailor-made | 20 | No |
| Company plan | |||
| Price | From € 38.65 | Sur devis | 69.99€ |
| Test pages | Tailor-made | Tailor-made | 300 |
| Test duration interval | 1 to 60 minutes | 1 minute | 1 minute |
| Simple monitoring | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Supervised monitoring | Yes | No | No |
| E-mail alert | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SMS Alert | Tailor-made | Tailor-made | 400 |
| Phone call alert | Tailor-made | Tailor-made | Yes |
| Choose your plan | See the plans | See the plans | See the plans |
Thus, thanks to this comparison, we can see that :
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Alexis Le Baron
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