Analyse traffic, errors, keywords and referrals for web sites
Site Vigil has a wide variety of analysis tools to help you check a web site is functioning correctly.
| Broken links spotted quickly | One of the most common reasons for a web server to log a failure is when it detects that a user is referring to a page or graphic file that no longer exists. Usually this means that the file has not been uploaded or has been accidentally deleted, or, just as importantly, external sites (especially search engines) may still be referring to pages that have been deleted or moved. You can take action by changing the link or adding an automatic redirection page. Site Vigil can also scan a complete site and find broken links on any page. Read more... |
| You've been linked | Detect a surge in visitor traffic to your web site. Suddenly the number of hits increases substantially. This is typically when a link is added to an external page referring to your site. You will want to vet that the link is giving accurate information as soon as it has been added. Read more on referral analysis... |
| Search Engine Placement | People find web sites from search engines. Site Vigil lets you track the position of web sites within the search engine results. You can look at the competition and then improve your placement. Read more... |
| Search Keywords | What are people typing in to get to your site ? With Site Vigil you can see the individual keywords and phrases actually used on search engines so that you can fine tune your web pages to get a better placement. Read more on keyword analysis... |
| Host Reliability | Is your web host providing an adequate service ? Are you paying too much or too little for hosting compared to your competitors ? You need a program like Site Vigil to measure the effectiveness and sppeed of your web site. Your server may also be rejecting valid user requests, you can investigate the errors recorded on the server and make sure they are unavoidable. Read more on site availability... |
| Network Problem | If the expected number of hits does not occur then this may be because a link to your site has been removed or there is a major Internet routing problem. Either way you need to find out what is happening so corrective action can be taken. |
| Study the make-up of a web site | Our analyzer utility lets you analyse web pages or a whole web site showing all the links and graphics used within each page, this makes it easy to look around a site setting up page access monitors and to uncover problems with a web page design. |
| Spot that Page change | Checking when any page on the Internet has changed can be used to verify that the expected updates are being applied to pages to a site. You may also want to know when external (static) pages linking to your site get changed. Some malicious viruses will modify web pages and download files, Site Vigil can check this too. |
| Site Speed Test | Access time to pages is an important statistic to monitor regularly. Unfortunately, access time depends on many factors, many of which are outside the control of a web site administrator. Firstly, because Site Vigil is acting as a normal user requesting web pages there could be a number of levels of information caching occurring that mean that it is not actually measuring time to reach a web server and return information all the way back. However, depending on the connection route that Site Vigil uses, the statistics should reflect an ordinary user's experience of page access time. Read more on site speed... |
| Economic to Run | There are a number of companies that will monitor your sites for a regular monthly fee. But you get limited information and little control over the monitoring made. For important commercial sites you need to be running several independent checks on the web site. Site Vigil has a one off cost that gives you direct control over monitoring. |
| Monitor Remotely | With the Pro's Remote Viewer facility you can keep track of the monitoring status remotely wherever you have access to a web browser and a connection to the machine running Site Vigil. |
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Site Vigil has the solution to a range of web site monitoring problems affecting your web site. Its real-time analysis of web sites gives you the information you need to get more from your Internet investment.
| Tracking Advertisement Spend | If you place an advertisement you will want to know the effectiveness of the campaign. Visit our advertisement tracking case study to show how Site Vigil can help. |
| All pages present | Despite the best endeavours of the web designer it is all to easy to break an existing site or forget to upload a page of graphics file. The one thing that is guaranteed to put off visitors is a link to a page that does not exist or links to external sites that have not been upgraded for ages. Visit our link checking page to see show how to check your site's pages in four complementary ways. |
| Search Engine Tracking | As Search Engines have developed over the past few years it is more difficult to make your way to the top of top search engines such as Google and stay there. You can track the position of your site on the top search engines with Site Vigil. Visit our search engine monitoring case study to see how automatic monitoring can help keep your site at the top. Studying the keyword phrases that are used to reach your site gives you the information to fine tune the web pages. Visit our keyword analysis page to see how Site Vigil monitoring can help get a better placement for your site on search engines. |
| New Listing | One of the most dramatic ways that web traffic can suddenly jump, is a mention of your site in an e-mail newsletter. You will want to know about this as soon as possible so that more bandwidth can be made available and also check the reason why the link has been added. Visit our traffic referral page to see how our referrer analysis can quickly spot new sources of visitors. |
| Flexible alert notifications | Knowing that there is a problem one thing, letting you know about is quite another. Other, less sophisticated products may just beep at you from time to time. Site Vigil has a flexible range of alerting options to let you know in the appropriate manner than a problem has occurred and needs attention. Visit our alert notification page to learn more about the how Site Vigil alerts work |
| Speed Comparison | Looking at the user's perceived access time to key pages compared to similar sites will let you work out if the web hosting package is appropriate. There may well be a problem with the network connectivity of the server rather than with the web server itself. Check the performance of other company's pages before switching to use the same host. Visit our site speed page to see in detail how measurements of access time can help determine the best solution. |
| Reliable and available | Battling with a web hosting company over a poor service can be impossible if you can't show clearly how much downtime has actually occurred. Because these companies will often blame the network or your connection to the network it is important to monitor several sites and so prove that it is not every site that is giving problems. Amaze the hosting company by giving them accurate times when the service failed and was restored - not just the 'ten minutes' they promised. Visit our site availability page to see how to collect the accessibility data for a web site |
| Detailed web page analysis | Getting the full picture of why some web pages are successful while others aren't, is important to maximizing your web presence. The Site Vigil Analyzer gives a lot of useful information about single web pages so that you can fix problems and optimize them for better performance and search engine ranking. Visit our site analysis page to learn more about our powerful utility |
| Faulty Pages | If your web site has errors on its web pages they may or may not display correctly. It's a good idea to make sure that all your pages conform to the HTML standards. On a recent scan of a range of leading web sites 83% had some sort of error on them. Modern browsers can be forgiving, but all it takes is a new, stricter version of a browser to be used for the whole page to be incorrectly displayed. The search engines that scan web sites can be less forgiving and may explain why it is getting a poor ranking. There's now no excuse for these errors, Site Vigil can automatically scan a single page or a whole site. Visit our validation page to see how errors can be tracked down |
| Tracing the culprit | Tracking down where new referrals are coming from is a vital activity. It may be that this is the first sign of a denial of service attack and you'll want to know who's doing it. Similarly if you want to check out whose just launched a new web site you can get Site Vigil to quickly tell you the contact details of the owner. Visit our ownership page to learn more about getting this vital information |
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Site Vigil™ is a sophisticated web site monitoring tool that lets you thoroughly check your site. Improve the effectiveness of your web site by tracking the flow of visitors. Make sure your site is operational and your web host is giving a fast, trouble-free service. Automatically check the position of your site on search engines and the validity of all the links.
It runs on an ordinary Windows® PC, using your normal Internet connection to gather data quietly in the background. Periodically it will alert you as soon as a problem is spotted.
Site Vigil is available for a free 40 day trial, give it a try by going to the download page.
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We have a large reference section and a set of case studies to help you
with all your monitoring needs.