Monitor website performance and end-user experience with SolarWinds
® Pingdom
®. Pingdom provides valuable information regarding web application response time and network performance. Learn who your users are, where they are, which browsers they’re using, and what kind of web performance they’re experiencing.
With uptime monitoring, you can make sure your website is available to visitors. You can specify a URL or port, and test to see how long it takes for that page or port to respond. With every incident, you’ll receive a root cause analysis report, which contains vital information such as HTTP status codes, trace routes, and request content.
If your site experiences an outage, Pingdom can send you alerts to help you identify the issue quickly, and debug accordingly. You can also schedule regular reports and integrate directly with other platforms if necessary. The Pingdom global network has over 100 probe servers that can test your website as often as once per minute.
Transaction monitoring helps you make sure your website is functioning properly. It replicates an end user's session by interacting with page elements and reporting on response. This feature lets you create scripts with our built-in check editor or record the transaction steps and have those actions translated into a script with the web transaction recorder. You can monitor online transactions such as registration forms, login entries, passwords, checkout, and search fields.
For example, in this particular script, an end user navigated to a URL, filled out a form, and will end their session on the thank you page. By setting up this script to run on a regular cadence (in this case, every five minutes), it can provide details on any service degradation.
If an element disappears or a page stops responding, Pingdom can gather debug data and provide it to you in a report. This can expedite root cause analysis by helping you determine where the transaction failed, and what you can do to resolve the issue.
Use the page speed test to confirm your web pages are loading quickly to help customers stay engaged. It provides a detailed, waterfall breakdown of every single asset that loads on a particular page, and shows you, step by step, where latency is occurring. All of these page assets are displayed in a timeline, making it very easy to see which ones have the longest load times.
Perhaps there's a redirect that's too slow, or an image that hasn't been optimized, or a bad piece of JavaScript from a third-party asset. The page speed test page can provide a wealth of information about all the varying types of content that are being loaded, and which ones may be causing problems. You can filter and sort the results to identify performance bottlenecks and view detailed responses and request header information.
And finally, real user monitoring lets you see exactly what’s happening on your website at any given time from a user's perspective. View the number of active sessions, average load time, and bounce rates. It can even provide valuable user information, including geographic location, platform load times, network states and connection speeds, and browser performance. This data can give you a deeper understanding of who your users are, where they are, and what kind of experience they are having on your website.
Help make your website faster and more reliable with powerful, easy-to-use, web application performance and user experience monitoring from SolarWinds Pingdom.