What is Website Monitoring Service All About?
By Denis Kolbyshev

A website these days is indispensable to showcase the offerings of your business and to market and sell your products at the same time. So you shell out quite a few dollars to get a slick-looking website and also hire a SEO service to achieve a high rank at the search engines. But it does not end there. You need to keep that position, and it is here that website monitoring service is required.

After a site is uploaded on the web, a new set of responsibilities start for you. You have to think about updating the content, answering the emails that have already inundated your inbox from visitors to your website. To top it all you have to check the navigability of the website. It is not possible to look at all these aspects, when you are handing a whole business be it big or small.

A website monitoring service makes sure that every thing is functioning as it should. The checks are done on regular intervals. Now hoe does a website monitoring service work? After each monitoring the services provider should draft a report. This report will talk about the site's functionality, the number of visits, the requirement of updates etc. The report should be kept online for at least a month so that you can log in and check it. These services are beneficial in the long run for your website.

Besides these such services also give reports about other aspects. They can give you the download speed of your webpage. So you can compare it with your competitor's speed and figure out whether you are vying well. Once you get the feedback about the performance of your website, you can forward it to your site management team to make necessary changes. If you are small business without any such team you can do it yourself too.

If you are planning to subscribe to the services of website monitoring, then first sign up for free services. By subscribing to them you can monitor only a limited number of web pages. But this option is suitable at the initial stage as it will let you understand whether it is worth for you. As your business grows, and your website too gains volume in terms of pages then you can opt for the premium plans. Such plans will allow monitoring more pages. Most of the companies that provide website monitoring service has both free plans and as well as premium plans. You can just check them out by visiting their website. On an average a premium plan allow you to keep track of 15 separate web pages and a free one monitors 5 pages.

Before you decide on a service provider, you can ask for a real-time demonstration with a mock webpage. The growing number of websites has led to the mushrooming of service providers of website monitoring. But always compare their service charges along with the type o service they cater. Otherwise you may end up spending meaninglessly.

About the Author:

Denis Kolbyshev is the author of this article on Website Monitoring. Find more information about Uptime Monitoring here.