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Monitoring

Website monitoring: alerts, uptime, SSL, links and speed

A report tells you what happened. Monitoring tells you when something is worth a look right away: tracking stopped, the site does not answer or the certificate is about to expire.

Alerts

  • Tracking stopped: no events have arrived for a day although at least 20 arrived in the week before.
  • Traffic spike: yesterday had at least 20 pageviews and clearly more than the usual level of the previous 30 days.
  • Goal reached: a goal was hit for the first time.

Alerts arrive by e-mail, and on Settings → Account and deletion you can also allow them as notifications in this browser. On the same page you choose the weekly and monthly report.

Uptime and SSL

The site's home page is checked every five minutes. An outage is recorded only after two failed checks in a row, and a failure is checked against reference addresses so that a network problem on our side does not show up as an outage of your site. You are notified when an outage starts and ends.

The SSL certificate is checked daily. You are notified when the certificate expires in 14 days and in 3 days, and when the certificate is not valid.

Broken links

Once a week the home page and the 50 most read pages are checked. Both the site's own links and external links are tested, and the ones that do not work are listed on the Site status page together with the page the link is on.

Site speed

Speed measurement is optional. It is turned on with the data-vitals setting in the snippet or with the option in the WordPress plugin. The browser measures five numbers from every page load and sends them when the page is closed or put in the background.

  • LCP, largest contentful paint: good up to 2.5 s, poor over 4 s.
  • INP, interaction to next paint: good up to 200 ms, poor over 500 ms.
  • CLS, cumulative layout shift: good up to 0.1, poor over 0.25.
  • TTFB and FCP describe the server response and the first paint.

Results are shown separately for mobile and desktop as the 75th percentile, the way Google assesses pages. Measurements are kept for at most 90 days.

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