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Let’s Encrypt Ends Expiry Emails – What Now?

Let's Encrypt has announced that it will no longer send certificate expiration notification emails. If you've relied on those emails to remind you when to renew your SSL/TLS certificates, it's

Best Web Transaction Monitoring Tools in 2024

Websites are no longer static pages.  They’re dynamic, transaction-heavy ecosystems where every click, form submission, and login matters.  Whether you're in e-commerce, SaaS, or finance, transaction failures can lead to

How to monitor a mobile App’s store ratings with Sematext

Introduction Launching a mobile App is no walk in the park, especially when it comes to your App's store position and ratings. One of the trickiest parts is maintaining a

10 Best Site24x7 Alternatives [2023 Comparison]

ManageEngine's Site24x7 has been around since 2007, and it has been adopted as one of the go-to website observability solutions for many businesses, big and small. It is a fairly

10 Best Uptrends Alternatives [2023 Comparison]

ITRS Uptrends has a lot to offer in terms of observability. It offers real user monitoring, synthetic monitoring, uptime monitoring, and a lot more, making it quite the powerful tool.

HTTP Monitor Overview: What It Is, Why & How to Create One [Tutorial]

The World Wide Web's transmission system is built on HTTP. To ensure an application that uses the HTTP transmission works, you must monitor it constantly. This is where an HTTP

How to Extract Numerical Data from a Web Page for Dashboarding and Alerting

Over the years working as a software engineer and now a product manager, I've encountered multiple situations where I needed to extract numerical data from a page on a periodic

How to Track Your Company’s Rating on a Website

Websites provide advisory services, research, and user reviews on SaaS companies to help users find the right product for their needs. Information and reviews shared by genuine users of your

How to Periodically Extract Webpage Performance Metrics from Browser API

To ensure a good end user experience, smart businesses periodically gather performance data from their websites. They measure the responsiveness and speed of their services to ensure fast and reliable

How to Extract Numerical Values from API Responses

Extracting numerical values from public or private JSON API responses can help you track and analyze data, easily spot trends, and alert on data that is important to your business.

How to Troubleshoot Slow Web Applications With Sematext

Maintaining a smooth operation of your web application is crucial for the success of your business. When customers encounter performance issues while using your application, it will likely affect your

How to Monitor the Performance of Mobile-Friendly Websites

Mobile-friendly websites are a must. We are all using mobile devices more and more to access information and perform all kinds of work and tasks - shopping, banking, communication, dating,

A Complete Guide to Google’s Core Web Vitals and How to Optimize Them

Definition: What Are Core Web Vitals? Core Web Vitals are a set of metrics that Google uses to assess a user's experience on a web page. These metrics help developers

Real User Monitoring (RUM) vs. Synthetic Monitoring Comparison

Three seconds is all it takes before your customer decides to leave. Would you imagine that! The audacity of some people! But, can you really blame them? We live in

How to Test Website Speed: A Step by Step Tutorial on Measuring Page Load Times the Right Way

It shouldn't come as a surprise that website speed is important to your viewers. It's the first thing they experience after accessing your website. Your website speed is like an

API Monitoring Essential Guide: 7 Common API Metrics to Monitor Availability & Performance

APIs have become the de-facto standard in building and running modern applications. They are an integral part of the automation workflow of any business and as more users rely on

What Are SSL Certificate Errors: Causes & Best Practices on How to Prevent and Fix Them

What do you think of a website that displays SSL/TLS certificate errors when you visit it? Most people abandon it in disappointment. A certain amount of trust and respect for

Website Benchmarking: An Example on How to Benchmark Performance Against Competitors

Time to first byte, first contentful paint, DNS response time, round-trip time, and the list goes on and on. With all of these website metrics, how are you supposed to

Introducing Sematext Synthetics for API & Website Monitoring

No matter which path of the stack you work on, it's crucial you make sure your website or API is up and running. We wanted to create a tool that