Compare Our Website Monitoring Capabilities
Compare our various methodologies for website monitoring:Get to know Site24x7 monitors better and choose the one that best fits your monitoring needs. Compare the functionality of the following monitors:
- Website Monitor
- Web Page Speed (Browser)
- Web Transaction
- Web Transaction (Browser)
- SSL/TLS Certificate
- DNS Server
- Website defacement
- Brand Reputation
- Real-time Blocklist
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| Questions | Website Monitor | Web Page Speed (Browser) | Web Transaction | Web Transaction (Browser) | SSL/TLS Certificate | DNS Server | Website Defacement | Brand Reputation | Real-time Blocklist |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What does it Monitor? | Checks the website response for a success code | Load time for all the individual assets a website requests | Availability and response time of a transaction on a website or web application | Availability and performance of multi-step web transactions | SSL/TLS certificate | Domain name resolution and DNS records TTL | Monitors for changes to the visual appearance of a website | Checks your domain URLs for unsafe web resources. | Host names or IP addresses |
| Ideal for Monitoring | Ideal for making sure the website is globally available and accessible to visitors | Ideal for identifying static assets that detrimentally affect page speed and user experience | Ideal for monitoring the health of a web transaction. Can be tested more frequently due to the low overhead on the target application (No requests to JS, CSS, images are triggered) | Ideal for monitoring typical actions or paths that an user would take on a web application. The user interactions are continuously emulated on a real browser like Chrome from global locations to help identify issues. | Validity of SSL/TLS certificates of a domain | Ideal for identifying DNS resolution problems, checking TTL for DNS record types, and validating DNSSEC-signed responses | For detecting defacement attacks on a website. | Detect URLs in your domain that are marked as unsafe (deceptive sites, sites that carry out phishing attacks, hosting unwanted software or malware) | Detect hostnames or IP addresses that are blocklisted. |
| How does it Monitor? | Sends a GET request to a website or URL endpoint from the selected locations (120+ global locations available) or from within your private network, observes the response, and measures the web server response time | Loads the full web page or URL on a real browser, and measures the resource loading time for assets like CSS, JS, images, web fonts, etc. | Monitors via server side programs. Actual rendering of a web page does not occur. Cookies and other sessions are handled automatically | Monitors via a real browser (Mozilla Firefox). The actual rendering of the web page takes place. Cookies and other sessions are handled by the browser | Groups all the SSL/TLS certificates linked with an HTTPS server and validates the SSL Certificate if it's expired or not | Initiates a DNS lookup for the configured domain against name servers. | During poll the current Document Object Model (DOM) of the website is compared with a baseline DOM to detect and update the content modified threshold automatically. | Web Risk API is used to send URLs to the Google Safe Browsing server to check their status. | Checks the hostnames and IP addresses against popular DNS-based blocklist databases like Invaluement, SURBL, UCEPROTECT, Nordspam BL etc. |
| What is analyzed? | Web server response time from multiple locations | A visual representation of the static asset requests triggered by your website along with load time and order | Web server response time and transaction time | Web server response time and transaction time. All components of the web response are loaded including CSS, images, links loaded from third party websites and AJAX requests | SSL/TLS Certificate validity, OCSP checks to identify revoked certificates, blacklisted checks to identify potential blacklisted certifying authority, and detection of tampered certificates using SHA-1 Fingerprint threshold. | DNS server response time | Image, script, Anchor, iframe, text, and link defacement, script modified percentage, and text modified percentage. | Not applicable | Not applicable |
| Metrics captured | Captures availability status, response time by location, response time split-up, (DNS resolution, connection, SSL handshake, first byte, and download time) and throughput. | Page load by location, waterfall chart, content breakdown by requests, and size, along with PageSpeed Insights recommendations. | Response time for each transaction step by location and global status | Transaction time, global status, page load time by location | Expiry of domain's SSL/TLS certificate, revoked certificates, blacklisted certifying authority, and tampered certificates. | Response time and global status for DNS server | Element defacement status, script percentage modified, text defacement status, and text percentage modified. | Not applicable | Not applicable |
| Does the Site24x7 monitor support Internet/Intranet? | Internet and Intranet (via On Premise Poller) |
Internet and Intranet (via On Premise Poller) |
Internet and Intranet (via On Premise Poller) |
Internet and Intranet (via Linux flavor On-Premise Poller) |
Internet and Intranet (via On Premise Poller) |
Internet and Intranet (via On Premise Poller) |
Internet | Internet | Internet |
| Support for HTTP & HTTPS? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| What is the check frequency supported by the monitor? | 1 minute | 10 minutes | 5 minutes | 5 minutes | Not applicable | 1 minute | 1 hour | Not applicable | Not applicable |
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