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Reliable free website monitoring from Uptrends
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Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) strategies
Deliver flawless digital experiences across devices and locations. Learn how DEM with Uptrends helps you detect issues faster and boost performance.
Real User Monitoring vs. Google Analytics: What's the difference
Want to know what separates Real User Monitoring (RUM) and Google Analytics (GA)? Learn how they can work together to boost your digital experience.
Six reasons to use RUM and Synthetic Monitoring together
Discover why uniting Real User Monitoring (RUM) with Synthetic Monitoring gives you full visibility into site performance, uptime, user behavior, and more.
It's a SaaS world: We put the top 100 cloud providers to the test
We tested uptime and performance for Forbes’ top 100 cloud providers — see which ones led in speed and reliability. The results may surprise you!
Finding the problem just got easier
Discover how Uptrends’ new drilldowns, smarter error messages, and shareable reports make troubleshooting web issues quicker and easier.
Black Friday 2016: Top 50 online retailers' performance
See how the top 50 online retailers performed on Black Friday. Discover uptime, desktop and mobile load times, and performance insights from Uptrends.
404 errors: An opportunity or a deterrent? You choose.
Turn 404 errors into user experience wins. Discover how creative error pages and smart monitoring help retain visitors and show your brand’s human side.
Why is it important to know how your site runs in multiple browsers?
Your users don’t all browse the same way. Learn how testing your site across browsers protects your brand and ensures a strong user experience.
How we monitor our own checkpoints
Learn how Uptrends uses its own monitoring tools to ensure the 24/7 availability, performance, and reliability of its 233 global checkpoints.
Diagnose website performance problems with a waterfall chart
Struggling with slow site speeds? Learn to use waterfall charts to identify performance issues, fix slow-loading elements, and boost your site’s load …
Using the Uptrends API to control monitors
Learn how to use the Uptrends API to enable, disable, or suppress alerts for monitors during deployments and streamline your website monitoring strategy.
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