Website Basic Monitor Type Description

The Website Basic Monitor Type is designed to test multiple pages on your website (up to 3 pages) and verify that they are responding correctly by analyzing the server response and HTTP response. This level of monitoring detects if your website is not responding, or if it is returning simple web page errors caused by code or database errors. This service is effective at detecting the majority of website failures but not all (for full failure detection, use the "Website Standard" monitor type). This monitor also measures the web server performance by logging some of the basic server response times.

This service is recommended for monitoring web pages of average importance. This service can be used to test any type of dynamic web pages or GET-type web forms but can not be used to monitor POST-type web forms.

The major differences between this service and the “Website Standard” service is that the “Website Standard” does real-user simulation testing. It also downloads the page HTML and verifies that the text you expect to be on the page (which you predefine) is in fact on the page. The “Website Standard” service also has the extra feature of taking screenshots of Website errors for your review.

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Updated on: 10/10/2022