Posts tagged with Monitoring on the WebPixie Blog.https://webpixie.io/blog/en-gbhttps://webpixie.io/blog/post/uptime-percentage-calculationhttps://webpixie.io/blog/post/uptime-percentage-calculationEvery uptime percentage calculator assumes continuous 24/7 coverage. Real monitoring dashboards don't work that way: paused monitors and unmonitored gaps get excluded, not counted, which is why the two numbers rarely match.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:21:00 GMTUptime MonitoringMonitoringMatt Scotthttps://webpixie.io/blog/post/audit-outbound-link-rel-attributeshttps://webpixie.io/blog/post/audit-outbound-link-rel-attributesAffiliate links need rel=sponsored, comment links need rel=ugc, and both get missed the moment they're added, not on a schedule. Here is why an outbound link audit needs to be continuous, not a one-off.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:04:00 GMTSEOMonitoringMatt Scotthttps://webpixie.io/blog/post/incident-postmortem-capturehttps://webpixie.io/blog/post/incident-postmortem-captureAn incident postmortem needs more than what a monitoring tool logs automatically. Here's what your incident record already gives you, and the short list you have to write down yourself before you forget it.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 10:43:00 GMTIncident ManagementMonitoringMatt Scotthttps://webpixie.io/blog/post/ttfb-alone-wont-tell-you-whats-slowhttps://webpixie.io/blog/post/ttfb-alone-wont-tell-you-whats-slowA lower TTFB does not guarantee a faster page, and a higher one does not guarantee a slower one. Cloudflare has the data to prove it. Here is what to measure instead.Sat, 19 Sep 2026 17:30:00 GMTWeb PerformanceMonitoringMatt Scotthttps://webpixie.io/blog/post/find-your-orphan-pageshttps://webpixie.io/blog/post/find-your-orphan-pagesOrphan pages have no internal links pointing to them, so search engines struggle to find them. Most guides tell you to stitch together a crawler, a sitemap, and Analytics. Here is a faster way, plus a use case most guides skip entirely.Thu, 17 Sep 2026 18:04:00 GMTSEOMonitoringMatt Scotthttps://webpixie.io/blog/post/do-you-need-domain-monitoringhttps://webpixie.io/blog/post/do-you-need-domain-monitoringDomain monitoring is not one-size-fits-all. Whether you need it, and how much, depends on how many domains you own and what breaks if one lapses. Here is a scope-based way to decide.Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:32:00 GMTDomainMonitoringMatt Scotthttps://webpixie.io/blog/post/bgp-hijack-valid-tls-certificate-virtualizorhttps://webpixie.io/blog/post/bgp-hijack-valid-tls-certificate-virtualizorThe attacker's certificate for Virtualizor's domains was real, correctly chained, and issued by Let's Encrypt. That's the actual story: certificate validity checks the cert, not the network path serving it.Mon, 14 Sep 2026 08:33:00 GMTSSL/TLSMonitoringMatt Scotthttps://webpixie.io/blog/post/chrome-154-http-warning-subdomain-audithttps://webpixie.io/blog/post/chrome-154-http-warning-subdomain-auditChrome 154 turns on HTTPS-by-default warnings for everyone in October 2026. Finding your subdomains is the easy part. Knowing which of them actually need fixing before then is the part nobody's writing about.Sat, 12 Sep 2026 20:47:00 GMTSSL/TLSMonitoringMatt Scotthttps://webpixie.io/blog/post/namecheap-outage-dns-resolution-vs-managementhttps://webpixie.io/blog/post/namecheap-outage-dns-resolution-vs-managementDuring Namecheap's 13 Aug 2026 outage, DNS zone resolution stayed up while DNS management went down. A real, confirmed case for why resolution and management are separate failure domains.Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:19:00 GMTDNSMonitoringMatt Scotthttps://webpixie.io/blog/post/ocsp-stapling-2026https://webpixie.io/blog/post/ocsp-stapling-2026Let's Encrypt shut down OCSP entirely in August 2025. Chrome and Firefox both moved revocation checking off the live connection years ago. Most OCSP stapling tutorials still teach it as the default, without saying any of that.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 10:15:00 GMTSSL/TLSMonitoringMatt Scott