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So, you can program the timeframe when you will be doing maintenance jobs as “Maintenance Windows” in the web tool. This can be enabled in a new tab in the test administration menu. The windows can be defined either as periodic tasks, for example done every day from 0:00 to 1:30, or as punctual interventions on a specific date.

With this feature you can control availability measurements and what is more important, you will not receive any more error alerts while maintenance is being done.

Now you can select the number of threads that work on each test, and you can select the load profile for the web page components.

Example: Yahoo home, 5 threads for images.

We hope this new improvements will be very usefull for your tests, don’t hesitates contacting us if you need any kind of help.

It’s a new way of being always informed about the status of our servers and online services.

Same way as our widget, you’ll be informed at any moment and any place about the precise status of your servers, last tests, connection time, DNS resolution, download time, etc.

We hope this service will be very useful for you, and we would be very pleased to hear your comments.

If you want to start using it now, just write next URL in your mobile browser:

externaltest.com/mobile

Then write your login and password to access your tests results data.

Don’t hesitate to contact us for sending your feedback, we really appreciate it.

In terms of Vanessa Fox, from Google, the most famous and used web search engine: “If the server is down when Googlebot tries to access your site, then, your services may disappear from the index until Googlebot is able to search them again”.

When Googlebot cannot access a web site, will try again a few times before removing that site from the index. Then, the time spent before the site may be indexed again varies depending on diverse facts.

Google doesn’t like that serps are filled with searching results leading to unavailable pages; so then, it’s normal that their major efforts are focused on removing from the index all those sites where Googlebot couldn’t access. They wouldn’t probably mind if your web site is fired from the index regardless because of the vast amount of sites with similar contents that are shown as result of any search performed on Google; and, looking this way, Google’s aim is to redirect their users to pages that are available and accessible properly. Google’s, and every single enterprise’s aim is to satisfy their users or clients and, in this way, they are looking to provide a good service.

Apart of the explained above, we strongly encourage you to learn more about the subject by reading a pair of references. The first: “Has Google regard on the response time of the server as positioning factor?”, including different user’s comments, among all of them the one posted by Brown, who affirms that “after changing my hosting service to a new server, apart from decreasing the response time, the number of visits incoming from Google raised notably”.

The other one: “Why good hosting is important”.

So, summarizing, we have to be very careful with the disconnections of our server. It is necessary to have it continuously monitored so as to fix every single error immediately.

Its difference with other technologies is that the screenshot is performed by a real navigator instead by using emulator. At the moment, the supported navigators are:

-Internet Explorer, 5th, 6th and 7th releases.
-Mozilla Firefox
-Netscape

Working in this way, we’ll be able to locate layout errors (like banners not working properly in some navigators, text fragments that are not where they are supposed to be, CSS not working properly) as well as client’s side errors, like javascript errors.

The incorporations have been located in South America and Europe, concretely in Argentina and Italy.

In this way, we’ll provide fully testing service to your site. Because the performance of tests from a wider range of locations, improves our capacity to compare the access latencies of your services.

The start date to this new phase for XT will be September the 1st, 2006. You can keep using your account completely free of charge until then.

For Bloggers and .org sites the XT service will continue being for free, as long as this is previously requested and that a small ‘Monitored by XT’
logo appears in the footer of the page.

You can review the table fee here.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any doubts or questions.

You can create a new Performance test from the Tests tab, chosing ‘HTTP Performance’ as Test type.