Accurate monitoring of Web Site availability

Site Vigil uses state of the art technology to monitor web sites. Here are some of its key features.

Suitable for small to medium sized web sites, particularly when the site is externally hosted.
Monitor one or more web pages and sites in a consistent way.
Quick and easy to set up and use. An installation and setup wizard take you through the stages of creating a working configuration step by step.
Runs on Windows® (XP,98,Me,NT4,2000) and easily accessed from a system tray icon.
Flexible alerting mechanism to inform you of any web site problems. E-Mail, SMS, System Event and sound alert options with the ability to escalate an alert.
Find out as soon as a site gets unexpectedly very busy. Builds a dynamic web traffic profile of activity over a week.
Find out when another site has added a link to your site.
Periodically check that all linked pages and sites are accessible (no more unexpected 404 errors).
Generates a regular summary report for an overview of web site monitoring activities.
Monitor profile of all visits to pages on a site.
Graphical presentation of web site traffic, ping and page access times.
Get told when any page is not accessible or has been changed, perhaps by a virus attack on the server.
Export monitoring statistics in HTML, XML or CSV format for in-depth analysis.
Monitor several search engines for several keywords in one scan command.
Find out all the errors that the server reported when processing requests.
Check links to internal and/or external pages from any web page.
Full breakdown of keywords used by search engines to reach your site.
Easy access to display all the web pages in the web site position ranking list.
Full HTML context sensitive help included.
Understands most web server log file formats.
Automatically gather Ping statistics on server accessibility on Intranets or the Internet.
Uses HTTP or HTTPS to check that web pages are accessible.
Uses FTP, passive mode FTP or SecureFTP to monitor activity on web site servers. Automatically detects and uses FTP RESTART feature when available.
Monitoring is done quietly as a background user mode process running at a low priority. No device drivers or system services are used.

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Site Vigil has the solution to a range of web site monitoring problems affecting web sites. Its real-time analysis of web sites gives you the information you need to get more from your Internet investment. Look through the following case studies of how Site Vigil can be used to solve common problems facing web owners, administrators and designers.

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
Keeping statistics secure	With so many marketing mechanisms available for promoting web sites, it is now more than ever important to keep detailed, permanent records of the traffic rather than bland statistical averages. With log files you can investigate individual problems reported by users and study long term trends at a detailed level. Most web servers throw away the information after a short space of time. Site Vigil can keep an offline copy of this vital source of information. Visit our log file archive page to read about the automatic archiving facility

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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.
To look at the program features in more detail take an online tour of the product
We have a large reference section and a set of case studies to help you with all your monitoring needs.