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StatusCake: Monitor Website Status & Get Alerts In Case Of Any Issues

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One of the factors that indicate reliability in the cyberspace is consistency, which is indicated by the uptime of a website. Errors or hurdles in accessing a website cause losses for the website owners, while causing nuisance for the visitors. This requires continuous monitoring of your websites to be prepared for the worst. Monitoring multiple websites using multiple tools is expensive and tedious, but StatusCake extends your concern to unlimited websites with technical tests, uptime widget, and emergency alerts to your Twitter, Skype, Email accounts. In cases where a dead server can be restarted using a script or an alternative server when the website is down, the built-in Ping Status URL feature triggers the relevant areas to activate the website, automatically. Read More

Collusion: A Firefox Add-on Allowing You To Visually Track Your Online Activity

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If you’ve enabled cookies on your browser, the online activity undertaken is usually sent from websites to third-party tracking websites. This creates a network of company-tracker linked list, which can be used to construct your long-term usage history. Although this is a major privacy concern by some, Collusion, an experimental Firefox add-on, lets you access this information for better and safer activity. Moreover, understanding the concept of intricate dependencies within websites has been simplified by the user-friendly animated layout coupled with relevant information displayed on the sidebar. Using this add-on, you can easily identify websites using third-party cookies, to track your activity while monitoring a spider-web of data dependencies, which motivates you to further pursue your online interests. Read More

Website Security Monitor Scans Website For Virus, Errors, Scripts, & More

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If you are using CMS system for your website, like Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, etc with installed 3rd party plugins, it can be hard to determine whether your website has been affected by malware or a phishing script or not. In order to identify such issues or to check your website for malicious agents, you can use Website Security Monitor. It allows checking your webpages for unauthorized links, scripts, ads and inappropriate content. Additionally, it provides information regarding your website accessibility, performance, web server, database integrity, number of external and internal links, and web server security. Website Security Monitor has been created by the same developer who brought us the previously reviewed Social Monitor and Internet Security Controller. Read More

SiteVerify Displays Visited, Non-Visited And Dead Links In Website

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Validating each anchor tag in your website is a cumbersome job, especially when you're maintaining huge content over your blog or even on a simple static website. SiteVerify is a simple application to check anchor tags, which are referring internally to other pages/links of the websites. The main usage can be observed in an instance when you’d need to validate all the links and find out the dead ones. Read More