Why is it Important to Monitor Website Uptime?

Website monitoring is one of the common practices hired by many companies which offer online sales and services. These functions are carried out by the third party companies, which offer different monitoring services like website monitoring, server monitoring, router monitoring and so on. There are few important and basic functions of these website monitoring companies, which are essential for each and every company. They are nothing but the uptime and the downtime.

Monitoring uptime and down time are the two most important functions of website monitoring since they give crucial information about the performance of the site. For now let us see the importance of monitoring uptime of the site.

Uptime is nothing but the time which depicts the availability of the site through out the year. For instance if the uptime of a particular website is 99%, then it shows that the website is unavailable for 3 days or its downtime is 3 days per year. Higher the uptime, higher is the traffic to the website and higher is the number of consumers. By knowing the up time of the website, the company can analyze few more things and let us check what they are and know few more benefits of monitoring the uptime.

• Monitoring the uptime helps to find the downtime or the time when the website is going down. This helps the companies to find where their website is going wrong and hence can do the required modifications.

• The information about the uptime also tells how many visitors are coming to the site, when and from where the maximum traffic is coming and so on.

• Uptime of the site directly indicates that most people are visiting the sites at that time and hence tells the number of people they are losing during the downtime of the site.

• This helps the companies to do periodic maintenance and to change the website according to the usage of the visitor.

These are the few benefits of monitoring the uptime. Many service providers also offer an option of public uptime. Public uptime displays the uptime of the particular website to the visitors and hence increases the credibility of the site.