Web Site Monitoring Industry News

Improving Website Performance With .htaccess File Configuration

aliax — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:03:44 +0000

Handlers Apache 2.0 and 2.2 allow you to compress content before sending it to the visitor’s browser. Types of content to be compressed, set the type of MIME. This function requires the correct operation of the command handler mod_deflate Apache. Before modifying configuration file, don’t forget to back up your .htaccess.

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Add the following lines to your .htaccess file:

AddOutPutFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml

# Netscape 4.x has some problems…
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html

# Netscape 4.06-4.08 have some more problems
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4.0[678] no-gzip

# MSIE masquerades as Netscape, but it is fine
# BrowserMatch bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html

# NOTE: Due to a bug in mod_setenvif up to Apache 2.0.48
# the above regex won’t work. You can use the following
# workaround to get the desired effect:
BrowserMatch bMSI[E] !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html

# Don’t compress images
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI .(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ no-gzip dont-vary

# Make sure proxies don’t deliver the wrong content
Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary

This will make your website work really faster and your visitors will feel grateful to you, which means they will be more loyal and more of them will turn into your permanent customers.

p.s. If for some reason your server returns Error 500 (Internal Server Error), try asking your host support how to enable GZIP compression on your website.

New All Star Award Program Announced by Dotcom-Monitor

aliax — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:28:30 +0000

On the last week Dotcom-Monitor announced a new Website Performance All Star Award Program. The program is designed to monitor and analyze the availability and performance of participating websites, and then to recognize top-performing sites across all industries with three award designations and associated logos, which are displayed prominently on each participants website.

“Awards are separated by Industry Type and are granted at three levels. >98% = 5-star “Best of Industry” Award, >95%=”Outstanding” 4-star, >90%=”Standard of Excellence” 3-star. Websites with <90%= no star do not receive an award for that month.”

Participation costs 100$ per month. More info is available at Dotcom-Monitor.com website.

DigitalPoint Forums: Database Error

aliax — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:10:09 +0000

Hi guys,

Today I’ve tried to access DigitalPoint forums (also known as DP forums, one of the largest webmaster forums in the world) several time but every time I get a ‘Database Error’. I refreshed the page 4 or 5 times and than I thought if every DP user is doing the same, this is what actually keep the DP database down

I’ve searched for any explanation and\or official information but couldn’t find anything really relevant. Perhaps you know something that could shed some light on what is happening with DigitalPoint? Please tell us in the comments.

Website Monitoring Using Cloud Becomes Reality

aliax — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:42:34 +0000

Today BrowsMob have announced a new website monitoring service, that allows the clients to watch their website from different locations in the cloud, using different browsers. If an error is detected BrowsMob immediately captures and image of a site and notifies the client. This technology uses a web browser in real-environment tests are exactly what users see on the website. Moreover BrowsMob will record performance data and it will be possible to track the performance history of sites over time.
BrowsMob cloud monitoring already supports stress testing, both real and simulated traffic browsers. The new version provides monitoring and emergency services that customers can use to maintain the health of their Web sites and applications. BrowsMob monitoring service is free for low volume control and more frequent monitoring starts at $ 300 per month. The user needs only a script that lets you create directly carried out on the spot, and plan how often they want to run. After the conclusion of the contract is for users can be confident of receiving a warning if the site finds no errors.

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aliax — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:55:11 +0000

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How To Monitor Website Changes

admin — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:58:09 +0000

Want to know when prices are falling on trade sites? When someone publishes a new message on your favorite forum? When your friend’s website updates? All these scenarios and many others cry about the programs that can monitor changes in websites. Are there programs that allow checking website changes and how do they look like? It’s obvious that they must be able to check websites at intervals and compare the active state with previous state of the site. Update site should be announced at the user’s computer. Optional pleased to be able to monitor the site focuses on the changes to the site, the ability to ignore minor changes to the Web site (eg, date and time when change every minute) or log functionality.

The following list contains tools for monitoring web sites.

Check 4 Change

Check 4 Change Firefox Add-On. This is probably the most basic tools for monitoring sites, which are discussed in this article. The user can select text on web sites and open Check 4 Change the context menu when you right-click. This is where you can determine the interval for monitoring changes in the website. Update site will be displayed on the tab of the website, which is being monitored. This outlines one of the biggest drawbacks of this supplement. The site should be open to observation Firefox Add-On.

Several options available Add-On. You can change the frequency and adjust a few parameters, which include notification of playing sounds, pop-up windows or windows resulting in the front. Firefox is best used for monitoring web sites that require authentication. This, for example, may be interesting to monitor the Web e-mail accounts.

Update Scanner

Update Scanner uses a different approach than the check 4 Amend. The program automatically keeps track of the Web site for a complete change with the ability to ignore the numbers and small changes. Another benefit of using this web site monitor that sites which are controlled must not be open for its implementation to check for updates.

Range checks for site changes is set only once a day by default. This value can be changed to at least every 5 minutes, or set to manual scan on the other end of the scale. Extras will place an icon in the status bar of Firefox. Left-click on this icon opens a sidebar that shows all the sites that are controlled Add-On. This sidebar contains buttons to perform a manual scan, open one of the controlled web sites and access to the preferences of add-ons that allow the user to configure notifications.

Available are reasonable and pop-up notification.

Site Delta

Site Delta is the third Firefox Add-on for monitoring web sites. Extras little bit confusing at first, until the obvious way to add web sites that should be monitored to see him. Firefox begins to monitor websites for changes, if a user clicks on its icon in the status bar of Firefox. Active URL will then be added to the list of pages that are controlled Add-On. The icon turns green, if the active site is controlled by it. Click the right mouse button opens a context menu that can be used to configure monitoring in detail.

Users can configure the scan settings in the two tabs. Firefox by default will check the text and image changes. This is in addition, can be ignored or case number, and create a backup copy of a page when he accepted the changes.

When scanning a bookmark can be used to configure scanning intervals. You can set a specific frequency, or let them add-ons to handle. It seems that the use of the algorithm, which reduces check whether the site is controlled, which is not updated frequently.