June 29, 2007 - 7:27pm
Monitor your site's uptime and responsivness
Monitoring services and software packages are available that can check your site on a regularly scheduled intervals and report back to you on problems like finding the site down, responding too slow, or having been unexpectedly changed. I don't know all the options or everything that's available. I found a few monitoring services listed in the extras section of The Host Guru website. I also found a section discussing monitoring uptime on the Web Host Reviews web site. Both sites seem like they may be useful to the frustrated website shopper.
I'm currently using Site24x7's 15 day trial which give me site response for several sites at intervals as frequently as every 5 minutes. I get a graph of page load time, e-mail and/or SMS alerts. After 15 days its going to revert to only monitoring 1 site and only checking once an hour, but that still seems useful. Besides a login where I can configure stuff and review details, I get code I can embed in a web page to produce a condensed graphical report, and a RSS feed that shows me the current site(s) status.
The monitoring allowed me to see that some of my sites occasionally respond so slowly that they are either useless or extremely irritating (10-30 seconds to load a page).
Mark
June 29, 2007 - 7:33pm
The W3C code checkers
All the code checker I've used on the W3C site had an option to display source code. You have to check the option box to display code and re-run the check(s).
That provided me a listing that include line numbers so I could examine LINE 70 and see what link was being referred to in the error message.
Hope that makes sense and is of some use.
Not sure I've used it for link checking, I've used it more for valid XHTML, CSS, and RSS coding checks.
Mark
July 2, 2007 - 5:07am
??The monitoring allowed me
??The monitoring allowed me to see that some of my sites occasionally respond so slowly that they are either useless or extremely irritating (10-30 seconds to load a page).??
Is your page loading slow?? Check it out with their tool http://site24x7.com/web-page-analyzer.html
OK, let’s assume you’ve got your church's site up and running well. Everyone seems to be reasonably happy with the content, functionality and theming. What tools can one use to ensure peak performance? Monitoring your host is suggested in this thread. What tool do you suggest to do this?
What else is of value?
I like:
W3C’s (X)HTML (Markup) validator
W3C’s CSS validator
W3C's RSS/ATOM feed validator
Here’s a stupid question: How do I use their link checker? I enter my URL and it scans the site, providing a long list of valid links and a short list of broken links and redirects.
[broken link]
What to do: The link is broken. Fix it NOW!
Response status code: 404
Response message: Not Found
Line: 70
How do I track the line number back to even which page contains the error?
What else is good to look for?
Blessings!
-NP