Scott's Pinger - Website Status Monitor app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Scott DeSapio
First release : 28 Mar 2013
App size: 36.36 Mb
From the developer of the Award Winning Conversion Calculator App, "Milas Tools", comes "Scotts Pinger" - an elegant, no frills, easy-to-use website status and up-time monitor.
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Scotts Pinger Main Features:
* USER CONFIGURABLE INTERVAL FOR AUDIBLE AND VIBRATING ALERTS *
Set monitor to ping your sites as often as every 30 seconds
* ALWAYS ON *
App avoids iPhone auto-sleep and stays visible for as long as you need
* VERBOSE LOGGING *
Record response headers
* UNIVERSAL APP *
Works on iPhone, iPod, and iPad
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- What is "Scotts Pinger?"
"Scotts Pinger" is a simple on-demand website status checker. As a web developer, I was looking for a simple way to check site status and response time on the run so, I built "Scotts Pinger."
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- What does "Scotts Pinger" do?
Scotts Pinger sends HTTP GET or HEAD requests to the sites you specify and reports back the time it took to receive the payload back from the server. If your site is unresponsive, Scotts Pinger alerts you immediately by sending a local
notification to your device and sounding off an audible alarm.
It should also be noted that "Scotts Pinger" is actually not technically a "Pinger" in that ICMP is not used but rather HTTP GET and HEAD requests are used to achieve the "Ping." As is the case, Scotts Pinger can also be used to prime the
cache on your server. "Scotts Pinger" however was a far better name than "Scotts Website Response Time Checker and Cache Primer." :)
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- What does the "Timeout" setting do?
The Timeout setting indicates how long to allow the pinger to attempt to connect to your site before failing with a FAILED red indicator and sounding off the alarm.
EXAMPLE: The Timeout is set to 5 seconds and your site does not respond within 5 seconds. Based on your settings, an audible alert and/or local notification will be initiated and the monitors associated indicator will be highlighted as FAILED.
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- What does the "Slow" setting do?
The Slow Threshold setting indicates when to attach a yellow warning indicator to the monitor.
EXAMPLE: The Slow Threshold is set to 500ms and your sites response time clocks in at 536ms. That sites associated monitor indicator will we highlighted in yellow.
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- What does the "Ping Refresh" setting do?
The Ping Refresh setting indicates how long the monitor should wait between ping cycles.
EXAMPLE: The Ping Refresh is set to 30 seconds. The monitor list will automatically recycle and ping your site list every 30 seconds.
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- What exactly does the Monitors MS time represent?
The milliseconds displayed in the monitor represent how long it took for the sites response payload to be received.
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If theres a specific option or feature youd like to see added, please write me at http://bit.ly/WriteScottDeSapio, and Ill see about getting it into the next release. Thanks!