Website Performance Monitoring using PingLink

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Overview

2. Tool Functionality Summary

3. Viewing the Reports

1. Overview

The algoQA scraper tool is integrated with the PingLink capability, which helps generate reports and allows you to assess how well a website or application is performing. It displays metrics, such as response status code, response time and page load speed along with the provided URL, date, and time, as shown. 
To explain this capability, Zomato application is considered. 

This helps in finding the issues in a given application. By keeping track of these metrics, you can make sure your web services are performing well. Choose to 'Click here' link if you wish to test all the available links.  In case if you wish to stop the analysis of the links at any point, then click the 'Stop' button.

1.2. Tool Functionality Summary for PingLink Option

The following table provides the brief description of the functionalities used in Pinglink option:

Field	Description
	Displays the Page name URL which is being analyzed.
	Displays the date of the application analysis in MM/DD/YYYY format.
	Displays the time of the application analysis in HH: MM format.
	Response Status Code Informs you if a web request was successful or if there was a problem. Helps identify and fix errors (like broken pages or server issues) and check if everything is working as intended.
	Response Time Measures how quickly a server responds to a request. If responses are slow, it might mean the server needs more resources or optimization.
	Load Time Indicates how long it takes for a web page or application to fully load. Ensures that users don’t have to wait long for pages to load. It helps improve the overall user experience by making sure everything loads quickly.

3. Viewing the Reports

After analyzing the report, you will be see the following screen:  

In the preceding screen, you can:

1. View the report by clicking the View report link. 
2. The system generates a report as follows: In the Website Performance Data screen, you can download the report in the CSV format by clicking the Download CSV button. A sample report downloaded is as follows: