{"id":1487,"date":"2023-03-21T15:12:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T15:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uptime.com\/blog\/?p=1487"},"modified":"2024-12-06T18:09:51","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T18:09:51","slug":"pingdom-alternatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uptime.com\/blog\/pingdom-alternatives","title":{"rendered":"12 Alternatives to Pingdom for Checking Your Website’s Health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Now that Pingdom has permanently closed its doors to free users, many customers are searching for alternatives to stand in the gap for their website performance monitoring needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Web monitoring<\/a> keeps you from losing potential business because of service or site downtime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Sanchez of Mammoth Web Solutions<\/a> says: \u201cYou have to continuously monitor your domain, because every new integration can affect domain performance. We recommend testing site loading speed before and after every update and added integration.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While there are some basic criteria to consider for your web infrastructure monitoring needs,<\/a> each company packages them differently. It can be very hard to tell if two software programs do exactly the same thing because features often have different names from platform to platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Page load time is one of the most critical aspects of web performance. If your site doesn\u2019t load fast enough, website visitors will go elsewhere and you may be penalized by Google. Another important metric to measure is time to first byte.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Website Monitoring is Critical to Improving Time to First Byte (TTFB)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Internal monitoring checks the availability of your web infrastructure from within your company network. External monitoring is crucial to judging the performance of your website from outside your network, where website visitors and customers access it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Website visitors may have an entirely different view of your website, and a high TTFB may not be caught by relying solely on your internal network metrics. This is why many companies invest in both internal and external monitoring solutions to ensure network health for both your employees and clients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Taz Lake of Brightmill,<\/a> there are lots of things that can impact TTFB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBad performance can be caused by many issues including out of date software and hardware, poor DNS services, as well as end-user device capability. Old PHP and out of date WordPress instances are par for the course. Also, complexity really clashes with performance, so removing unused technology components like old plugins can also help.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Free speed tests<\/a> are a great starting point, but continual monitoring is the gold standard for organizations that depend on the internet for revenue. Using a Ping\/ICMP check like those provided by Uptime.com is a great way to keep an eye on this metric.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Continuously monitor website speed and receive alerts with an Uptime.com free trial,<\/a> no credit card required.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Domain Health is More Than Just Occasional Testing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If you type \u201cFree Domain Health Check\u201d into Google, there\u2019s about 152 million results (at time of publishing this article).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, there are plenty of free testing tools. But running a random, one-off domain health check isn\u2019t going to ensure the health of your domain is checked on a continual basis,<\/a> even with regular testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plus, the services these free tools provide are always limited in functionality. (We offer a free domain check as well, and it puts too much load on our servers to offer a fully-featured tool for free to everybody who wants it.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to ensure your domain is healthy in the long-term, monitor one or more aspects of your web infrastructure including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n