Perhaps some of you guys noticed a new button that appeared on my blog a few days ago. From now my blog is monitored every 30 minutes and my uptime statistics is available for public. Want to get a similar button? That’s easy. Check Dotcom-Monitor’s Uptime Meter, you don’t even need to sign up to use the feature and of course it’s free. Just provide the URL you’d like to monitor, get the code for your website and add it to your site. That’s it.
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The switch to IPv6 is on. In June 2008, the U.S. federal government, which is arguably the world’s largest single enterprise, required that all its executive agencies add IPv6 to their network backbones. The European Commission recently set an IPv6 target adoption rate of 25 percent by 2010, and the chairman of the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre predicted that all IPv4 addresses will be depleted by 2011, forcing wide-scale IPv6 adoption. A number of Internet powerhouses, such as Google and Alta Vista, have now deployed IPv6 accessible websites. Operating systems, such as the latest versions of Microsoft Windows, include IPv6 support.
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As a rule, commercial website monitoring services offer so many features and capabilities that an ordinary user may feel trapped in realm of buttons and unknown terms when trying to master website monitoring control panel. Monitoring usage may turn into a nightmare for an unexperienced webmaster. I fully understand that there are people who’d like to enjoy website monitoring services without having to read tons of technical literature and documents. That’s why I’ve prepared this short Guide. As an example I’ve chosen Dotcom-Monitor’s control panel.
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Jeremy Mayes, the author of the PPC Discussions blog, told about his two-month experiment: Jeremy tracked every AdWords ad he clicked and created a detailed statistics for every click. He managed to click more than 1000 ads during these two months. Along with many interesting data he found out one astonishing fact: about 11% of all clicks lead to dead pages! The reasons for dead pages may be different – server errors, removed or renamed landing pages, site down, typos in destination URLs or even malice – but the result is empressive – 11% of advertisents simply don’t work, meaning 11% of all the advertising funds are just wasted!
What can be done to avoid losses? Jeremy recommends monitoring the landing pages with website monitoring services. If a landing page goes down or gets accidentally removed, you will be the first who finds out.
Popularity: 62%
While surfing Wikipedia I’ve found a nice attempt to embrace the major players at website monitoring market and compare them. A table contains details of 33 most famous companies providing web site monitoring services, both commercial and free. The table has been created on November, 13, and by now it has descriptions for about 40% of the companies listed there. The information provided in the table includes minimum check intervals, supported protocols, approximate monthly cost, interface language, notification options, etc.
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Today I’ve collected a list of most important website monitoring companies, that provide both commercial and free services.
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