One of the things that webmasters need to ensure is that third parties are not modifying code on one of their websites. Attacks that make this possible include code injection or brute force attacks to retrieve the ftp or database password of a website. The free software Websites Cop can monitor contents hosted on one [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

I can think of a few situations where it makes sense to monitor a web page. This can be the case if you are a webmaster and want to make sure that your websites are accessible on the Internet, or if you just posted a message on a forum or site that does not support [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

I often make the decision to buy a certain product, a PC game for instance, when it drops below a certain price that I’m willing to pay for it. While I could check for price changes manually on a regular basis, I prefer to use a program for the tracking and monitoring. This has several [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Website monitoring is an important aspects of a webmaster’s routine, especially if the site is commercial in nature. Why? Because every minute of down time can have an impact on the website’s revenue, third party impression of the services offered and a website’s search engine rankings. But it is not only webmasters who have an [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Webmasters need to make sure that their websites are up and accessible to site visitors and search engine bots. Downtime can have different impacts from negative perceptions of website visitors to being kicked out of search engines for not being accessible. There are three options on how to stay informed about downtimes. The first two [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

More and more extensions that have once only been available for the Firefox web browser are released for the Google Chrome web browser. The latest to join the ranks is the Page Monitor add-on for Google Chrome which offers a similar functionality as the popular Firefox add-on Update Scanner. The program offers two options of [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Yesterday’s giveaway – which actually is still running so hurry up if you have not already participated – consisted of Pingdom Basic accounts for one year that webmasters could win by leaving a comment on the Pingdom review page. Pingdom is a website and server monitoring service that offers free accounts that are good for [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Many webmasters and system administrators need to know immediately when they websites or servers go down. Downtime can mean that business is lost, that search engines record errors when trying to crawl a website and that first time visitors never come back because the website or service is not loading or displaying error messages. Big [...]

Categories: Online Services, The Web

It happens sometimes that you are on a website waiting for something to happen, for example a download that should be available on that day or a registration form for a new web service. And then there are times where you want to reload a page because the contents change all the time. This can [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox