Site Vigil Lite 6.1

Site Vigil is a sophisticated web site monitoring utility that lets you get the most from 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.
Site Vigil 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. A summary of activity over each hour or day or week is generated in a concise report format.
Main features:
- 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.
- 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.
- More and more people are using search engines to find sites. Site Vigil lets you track the position of web sites within the search results. You can look at the competition and optimise your placement.
- What are people typing in to get to your site ? With Site Vigil you can see the individual keywords and phrases used for specific search engines so that you can fine tune your web pages to get a better placement.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- An analyser 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.
- 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.
- 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 users experience of page access time.
- 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.
- With the Pros Viewer facility you can keep track of the monitoring status remotely wherever you have a web browser and a connection to the machine running Site Vigil.
- The first signs of a new virus will show up as a whole bunch of referrals from a single web site or bursts of requests for non-existent resources. Youll want to know that the necessary patches are installed on the server as soon after a virus attack starts.
- If you really want to know what is happening at your web site then Site Vigil gives you that information at both an overview and detailed level. See individual accesses by robots and individual errors rather than just a graph. Track down individual problems that may relate to an individual session at a particular time.
Version restrictions:
- 40 days trial