site-uptime.net, network monitoring service was extended today by HTTP method selection option. You can choose to use HEAD (smaller network overhead) or GET (maximum 10 kB is downloaded in one measurement). Get option allow to download and analyse HTML content for specific keywords (required, like static text on webpage or undesirable, like IFRAME viruses).
Yesterday SMS notifications were added to site-uptime.net. You can specify cell phone number and get information on network problems directly to your cell phone. I hope this option will be useful for S-U customers (existing and new).
site-uptime.net, www sited monitoring tool has been just extended with feature to optionally delay notification until problems is confirmed during next (or third) check. It’s useful if you encounter with random short network failures and want to skip notification on such short living problems.
However, such random problems may show efficiency problems with your site (timeouts). You should check carefully what’s hidden behind them (web server error log, if available).
Today I’d like to share some observations on web applications speed. My monitoring network checks almost one thousand of URL addresses and few interesting pictures are created here.
Lets see sample monitoring results from random URL (one week measurment): http://forum.magicsquad.eu (located currently in webh.pl hosting provider):
As you can see typical site response time is almost four seconds! (DNS resolution time excluded) Measurment is performed from Cracow, Poland. Let’s see results from Chicago, USA:
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