Making websites faster and more reliable for visitors.
A website can be up and still too slow to use, or fast whenever it's online but frequently down. Here's how uptime and performance differ, how each is measured and how to monitor both sensibly.
Making websites faster and more reliable for visitors. Each guide is written by the UptimeStats editorial team to answer one practical question, with examples you can apply to your own website and links to primary sources such as RFCs and official documentation where they help.
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