Site Monitoring

Useful Site Monitoring Links

This page has a set of links to external web sites that are sources of useful information about web site monitoring. Silurian Software is not responsible for the accuracy of information held on these sites.

Products and Services

Alert Site is a bureau you can pay to monitor your web site periodically
HiSoftware have tools for monitoring networks
WebTrends for quality, corporate web site statistical analysis
All Whois Find out all about ownership and hosting of most international domain names
Search Engine Blog Keep up-to-date with latest developments concerning search engines
Alert Site is a bureau you can pay to monitor your web site periodically
Internet Traffic Report Live statistics on the current overall status of the Internet
Web Position Tools Review of the best available search optimization tools
Monitoring Tools Directory of web site monitoring tools.

Organizations

ICANN the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, overall domain name allocation authority.
ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers) Find out ownership and contact information for IP addresses in America.
RIPE (Réseaux IP Européens) Find out ownership and contact information for IP addresses in Europe.
IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) Overall authority for IP address allocation

Webmaster Resources

www.RobotsTxt.org - Using the robots.txt file
Cascading Style Sheets Specification - Using Cascading Style Sheets
TheCounter.com - Overall Internet usage statistics
Norid - Country domain name codes

Specifications

How HTTP works - Explanation of HTTP concepts
RFC1034 - Domain Names - Concepts and Facilities
RFC959 - The File Transfer Protocol
RFC2616 - Hypertext Transfer Protocol HTTP/1.1
RFC791 - Internet Protocol Specification
Cascading Style Sheets Specification - Using Cascading Style Sheets
Internet File Types - MIME types used on the Internet
RFC1180 - A TCP/IP Tutorial
Log file format - Specification of log server statistics files
Server log format - A log file fragment explained
Privacy Concerns - General information about browser cookies