# Website Monitoring Tools Applications Manager offers a variety of options to monitor your websites that you can leverage based on your needs. Gain insights into the availability and performance of your critical websites, respond quickly when there are problems, and ensure better end-user experiences. ## Know your website is down before your users notice Do you usually discover that your website is down from your users or employees? Then, you will find our simple website monitor useful. This simple [website monitoring](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/website-monitoring.html?website-monitoring-tools) tool can monitor your website periodically and alert you when the site goes down. It will also alert you when the size of your web page changes or if it starts to load slowly. ![Website Monitoring Tools - ManageEngine Applications Manager](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/images/website-monitoring-tools-availability.png) You can use the website monitor to track the uptime and performance of important pages on your website (eg, home page, sign-up page, store). If you want to keep tabs on a sequence of URLs similar to a website monitor, you can set up a [URL sequence monitor](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/url-monitoring.html), a website monitoring tool made just for keeping an eye on URLs! ## Test the performance of critical user paths on your website Do your customers complain about broken sign-up forms or flaky shopping carts? Among our website monitoring tools is the [synthetic transaction monitor](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/synthetic-monitoring.html) that can help you accurately simulate user interactions with your website and ensure the correctness and performance of critical user paths. ![Website Performance Monitoring Tools - ManageEngine Applications Manager](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/images/website-monitoring-tools-use-case.jpg) - Simulate business-critical processes via Selenium-based scripting of tests. - Run checks from real browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. - Take screenshots for reference when there are errors. - Test from multiple locations - enterprise branch offices or actual customer locations. ## Know when your website content changes Want to know if your site breaks when that deploy happens? Or if some hackers have defaced your site? The next tool in our list of website monitoring tools is the website content monitor. The [website content monitor](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/website-content-monitoring.html) will periodically monitor your website and alert you if the content changes. This is part of the overall [website performance monitoring](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/website-monitoring.html?website-monitoring-tools) capabilities provided by Applications Manager. ![Monitor Website Tool - ManageEngine Applications Manager](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/images/website-monitoring-tools-defacement.png) **Use Cases:** - Detect quality issues with your website. - Detect security breaches on your website, such as website hijacking, unauthorized changes to content, etc. - Defend your website against SQL injection attacks. ## Find why your site is slow and how you can optimize Want to know what is causing your site to load slowly? Is it a third-party script, an image/CSS, or poor-performing code? The [web page analyzer](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/web-page-analyzer.html) is an important website monitoring tool that can help you identify slow-loading components of a web page. You can then remove the unwanted ones or take steps to optimize them. Get your PageSpeed score and use PageSpeed suggestions to make your website faster. ![Web Performance Monitoring Tool - ManageEngine Applications Manager](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/images/wpa-pagespeed-insights.png) ## Prevent your website from being blacklisted Want to know if your site is being marked as unsafe to users? Amongst Applications Manager's website monitoring tools is the [brand reputation monitor](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/brand-reputation-monitoring.html) that constantly checks against Google's Web Risk list and alerts you when your site is blacklisted. ![Web Monitoring Tools - ManageEngine Applications Manager](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/images/brand-reputation-count.png) ![Web Monitoring Tools - ManageEngine Applications Manager](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/images/brand-reputation-details.png) - Get notified about why your site was marked unsafe - whether it was identified as a suspected malware, phishing/deceptive, or as an unwanted software. - Take steps to whitelist the URL if your website was wrongly marked as unsafe. - Maintain a positive brand reputation by constantly performing brand reputation checks on your website. ## Get alerts in the medium of your choice. Get alerts through SMS, e-mail or Slack. Automate tasks using web hooks to start external actions or even integrate with your ITSM tools such as ServiceNow or ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus. ## Start monitoring your websites within minutes! If you are looking to monitor your website, just download a [30-day trial version](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/download.html?website-monitoring-tools) of Applications Manager, set up the required monitors and start tracking the website performance now! ## Common Questions on Web Monitoring Tools ### Who can use Applications Manager's website monitoring tools? - Digital marketers - IT Ops - Web Developers - Web hosting providers ### How will Applications Manager's website monitoring tools help me manage my websites better? Applications Manager offers a variety of options to monitor your websites that you can leverage based on your needs. Gain insights into the availability and performance of your critical websites, respond quickly when there are problems, and ensure better end-user experiences. ### What are the website monitoring tools that are available in the free version? Website monitoring tools that are available in the free version: 1. URL Monitor 2. URL Sequence Monitor 3. Website Content Monitor 4. Web Page Analyzer 5. Brand Reputation Monitor ### How do I add the Real Browser Monitor? To add a Real Browser Monitor in Applications Manager, you need to purchase the End User Monitoring (EUM) add-on and install the EUM agent on your machine. For more details, click [here](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/help/real-browser-monitor-rbm.html?website-monitoring-tools).