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Friday, 25th August 2006

Free: Monitor Any Site (or Page) and Receive Quick Notification When It Goes Offline, Slows Down, and More

Site24x7

This web-based service (FREE) service comes from AdventNet, the same company that also offers the Zoho "must see" web-based apps we posted about last week. It's a tool of value to many including system librarians, webmasters, journalists, and others. I've been using it for a week and have zero complaints. Although many similar services exist, this one is very easy to use, offers lots of info, and is free.

What's Available
+ Notification when a site goes offline and comes back online. Basically, Site24x7 will ping any url (http:// or https:// on most ports) up to once every five minutes. When a problem is detected the user is notified via email or SMS or both.

+ Site response times are also monitored and tracked. Data is available in chart form for the day, week, month.

+ Notification when a response time reaches a threshold you determine.

+ Notification when a specific portion of the page changes and/or specific words are added or removed. A way to monitor for possible defacements.
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+ Ability to monitor web transactions.

Overall, this is one tool that should be considered by anyone looking to monitor the accessibility of any site or page

Here's a weekly Site24x7 report for the url www.youtube.com.

* For monitoring URL's for new pages, changes, new links, etc., we highly suggest a look at Web-Site Watcher. It's an app that we depend on many times a day. Here's an overview that Gary wrote for SEW last year. TrackEngine and Trackle are also noted.

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