subject: End Users Always Like A Good Responsive Web Site. [print this page] The effort would to protect your website from would be greatly appretiated, but its the unexpected errors that give hick ups to your online business.
There could be a million reasons for your site to go down, some of them are network issues, one of your web services has stopped working, for ex, your apache server, etc. Or may be a small script on your site has stpped working. Sometimes even a text character can break your site.
Your site should be monitored from different locations and load testing should be done accordingly. Monitoring services like user agent tracking, site visitor statistics should also be part of the service provided. External monitoring tests and monitors performance issues all the way to the end users, this is also known as end user monitoring or end to end user monitoring.
Real user monitoring measures the web performance and availability experienced by actual users and it also diagnoses incidents. Most of the web site monitoring services test your web servers anywhere between once an hour to once a minute. There are advanced services that focus on web transaction monitoring. These are based on browser addons, and they also detect javascript bugs.
There are mainly two types of website monitoring namely: Synthetic monitoring or Active monitoring and Real monitoring or Passive monitoring. Monitoring a web transaction is good, but monitoring a complete business process is always great. Website monitoring processes monitor the end user interaction with your website or web applications. They are often used by businesses in order to ensure a good responsive site.
