Website Availability and Uptime
Everybody doing business online has only one major concern, keeping an eye on major performance indicators and keeping them running as expected. One of the other major thing is the number of visitors to the business or company website as this is what boosts the business in terms of increasing traffic in sales and revenue volume. Despite the size or segment which a website exists, whether big or small, segmented or not what really matters at the end of the day is the amount of visitors in their websites.
There are two major performance boosters for any website which are mainly the website uptime and website load time. For instance, let's say your website becomes unavailable for a few seconds, do you imagine the number of visitors that you would have lost? All one needs to do is to ensure that the website is running all the time 24 hours around the clock.
The world nowadays is made up of impatient people who do not want to wait. It is therefore very important that one makes sure that the website load time is less than 3 seconds. If the website load time is longer, the visitor may just click on the competitor's page. It is therefore very important to have a reliable way of monitoring your website. The difference in wavelength in geographical regions should be taken care of when server monitoring the website. Therefore a business should also work at ensuring that even though it is impossible to ensure that the website loads the same way in all geographic regions, the discrepancy should not be very big. A website should therefore be up and running at all times and load using the shortest time possible.
One should be extra careful when purchasing a website though, this is because all the website monitoring providers available nowadays, boast of 99% up-time. A large company may be compromising on money if its website experiences some downtime.
There are various tools that can help an organization monitor its website availability. However, these tools should be user friendly and also have user friendly interfaces so as not to make the webmaster very complicated. The organization may also test for loads on applications and media components in order to help provide action items for the betterment of its site. There for the two most important maintenance tests to be carried out for any organizational website include both testing for website availability and load time testing. To learn more about web monitoring, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_development_tools.
