Website Speed has been integrated into Google’s search engine algorithm some time ago. Many webmasters have started to optimize their server and page loading times after the announcement. While it has been proven that faster page loading times have a positive effect on user interaction and sales, it is not clear how faster sites benefit [...]

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

Want to know when prices drop at shopping sites? When someone posts a new message in a forum? When your favorite website updates that is not offering an RSS feed? All of these usage scenarios and many more cry for programs that can monitor website changes. What should a program that monitors website updates come [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Software

Professional webmasters and system administrators have to make sure that their websites, servers and networks are running all the time. One way to ensure that is by running server monitoring software like IT Service View. Similar programs and services that we have covered in the past include the website monitoring software Sitemonitor, the website monitor [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

It is essential for webmasters and system administrators to monitor their websites and networks to be able to react as soon as possible if all or part of it goes down. That’s especially true for professionals who earn their living with their websites. A possibility are commercial services that notify the webmaster as soon as [...]

Categories: Software, The Web, Windows

Wysigot is a browser that acts both as a website monitor and downloader. One of its main functions is the download of entire websites or selected pages. The process has been streamlined to make it as easy as possible. To start the download of a website or page one would simply enter the url of [...]

Categories: Browsing, Internet Explorer, Software

Each webmasters has fears that his websites are getting hacked or that the server goes down. Happening usually in a moment when the webmaster is unaware of the problem (sleeping time). Server Monitoring can ease the mind of webmasters quite a bit. I have already covered the server monitoring service that I’m using to monitor [...]

Categories: The Web, Tools