Dotcom-Monitor has released a suite of free website testing tools.
The Dotcom-Monitor website testing tools allow users to perform a variety of tests on the performance of their own servers from external locations around the world.
Some of the Tests users can perform include:
- Check HTTP and HTTPS availability of web site from different locations around the world
- View speed and performance of website from different geographical regions
- Test email servers including POP3, IMAP, SMTP and ActiveSync
- Test FTP server connectivity
- Play streaming media files to verify performance and availability outside the network
In addition to the free website tests, there are tools that are helpful with troubleshooting website issues such as connectivity, page load speed and other performance related issues.
- Ping servers to detect network latency
- Perform remote traceroutes to see the paths taken to access website
- Run DNS traces to traverse the DNS tree from root servers
- Check DNSBL to ensure that your email servers are not blacklisted
Each of the free website testing tools provides a number of reports including:
- A waterfall chart displaying load metrics for individual elements on a page
- Load speeds from each of the 22 monitoring locations around the world
- A Screenshot of how the actual site renders in the selected browser
- A list of average load times and number of errors encounters as well as error codes
Dotcom-Monitor uses a synthetic monitoring or synthetic testing platform. The services utilize automated programs that are queued up and run automatically on the global monitoring network.
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