How to monitor your website with Uptime?

What is Uptime?

Uptime lets you monitor any website's uptime and response time.

What is Uptime?

Uptime is the time that a website or web service is available to users in a given period. A website that consistently fails to load, due to server failure or other issues not only makes for poor user experience but can also negatively affect search engine rankings. The downtime of a website can have a long-lasting negative effect, with visitors leaving your site and never returning, lost revenue and lower search engine rankings.

What is Response Time?

Response time is how long it takes for your web server to connect and send data to an end-user browser. A delay of around 5 or 6 seconds is problematic as a user will typically leave your website in this amount of time.

With Uptime Monitor, you can set it up so that an internal notification or an email is sent:

When your site is unreachable by visitors.
When the response time of your site increases by more than X seconds, for example 4 seconds.

How to Add a Site to Uptime?

You can add a site to Uptime when adding it to Site Manager. Simply toggle on the Uptime & Response Time button at the "Add Site to Tools" stage. You can read more about how to add a site to Site Manager here.



If you did not enable Uptime when adding the site to Site Manager, simply select the site from the Site Manager's Sites List and then click on the Uptime tab.



A pop up window will appear asking if you want to start monitoring the uptime and response time of the site. Click on Start Monitoring. Please note that it can take 10 to 15 minutes to add your site for uptime monitoring.



Once your site has been added, click on the uptime tab and you will see a graph of the site's uptime performance over a period of time, as well as a table showing the periods when the site was up, when it was down and for how long the site was up or down for.



You can set up internal and/or email alert notifications for the site you are monitoring via the Notifications & Alerts section. You can read more about how to set this up here.



Note that you can add uptime rate, response time as well as a mini graph showing response time over the last 30 days to your Sites List's data so you can easily see when a site is down or when a response time is too long. To do this, simply click on the cog icon at the top right of the Sites List and tick to add the columns, Uptime, RT and RT 30D.

Updated on: 18/11/2024