Synthetic monitoring (also known as active monitoring) is website monitoring that is done using a web browser emulation. Behavioral scripts (or paths) are created to simulate an action or path that a customer or end-user would take on a site. Those paths are then continuously monitored at specified intervals for availability and response time measures. Website monitoring is the process of testing or tracking (monitoring) how end-users interact with a website or web application. ... Icons for Web browser shortcuts on an Apple computer (Safari, Internet Explorer, and Firefox). ... In telecommunications and reliability theory, the term availability has the following meanings: 1. ... In telecommunication, response time is the time a system or functional unit takes to react to a given input. ...

Synthetic monitoring is valuable because it enables a webmaster to identify problems and determine if his website or web application is slow or experiencing downtime before that problem affects actual end-users or customers. This type of monitoring does not require acutal web traffic so it enables companies to test web applications 24x7, or test new applications prior to a live customer-facing launch. A webmaster (some women prefer webmistress) is a person responsible for designing, developing, marketing, or maintaining website(s). ... This page as shown in the aol 9. ... In software engineering, a web application is an application delivered to users from a web server over a network such as the World Wide Web or an intranet. ... Downtime refers to the period of time that a machine or system (usually a computer server) is offline or not functioning, usually as a result of either system failure (such as a crash) or routine maintenance. ... Economics and commerce define an end-user as the person who uses a product. ... Example graph of web traffic at Wikipedia in December 2004 Web traffic is the amount of data sent and received by visitors to a web site. ...