Key customer-features of AlertBot’s new website include responsive design, improved UX, intuitive navigation, new content and more.

March 27, 2017 – AlertBot, a leading provider of enterprise-class server and website monitoring solutions, announced today that it has launched a completely redesigned website at www.alertbot.com.

“As a leader in website performance monitoring, we know how important is to stay relevant and up-to-date with the latest technology and trends,” commented Pedro Pequeno, President of InfoGenius.com, Inc. which owns and operates AlertBot. “Our new website is the result of months of planning, development and testing. We are proud that it continues our tradition of quality and customer-focused updates that help make AlertBot so essential to our growing roster of customers worldwide.”

Key customer-focused features of AlertBot’s new and improved website include:

• Responsive design, which enables visitors to enjoy and access the website from any device: desktop, laptop, tablet or smartphone.
• Engaging graphics, which provide visitors with a crisp, clear and uncluttered experience.
• An intuitive interface and ultra-fast loading speeds that help visitors easily and rapidly find the information they need.
• New product pages that provide a clear picture of AlertBot’s advanced platform.
• A new Blog that shares practical advice and insights.

Added Mr. Pequeno: “Since launching our new website, the feedback we have received from current and new customers has been incredibly positive. We look forward to enhancing and adding new features in the months ahead!”

About AlertBot

Founded in 2006, through its industry-leading TrueBrowser® solution AlertBot enables businesses to continuously monitor the availability and performance of their mission critical public Internet services from across the country and around the world. When AlertBot detects an issue with websites or servers, it analyzes the problem within seconds from multiple geographic locations, and delivers real-time alerts to business leaders and system administrators via devices such as smartphones and mobile devices. Thousands of companies trust AlertBot to help them deliver the uptime and performance they expect, and their customers demand. Learn more at www.AlertBot.com.

About InfoGenius.com, Inc.

Founded in 1999 by a group of engineers, InfoGenius prides itself in building and delivering quality enterprise-class services that help businesses, both small and large, realize their greatest potential online. InfoGenius conducts its business through its network of independently branded services including AlertBot, ELayer and UptimeSafe. Learn more at www.infogenius.com.

If you’ve ever tried to buy tickets online for an event – whether for a popular Broadway play, a Las Vegas event, a concert in a local city or even a popular science fiction blockbuster movie months in advance – chances are you’ve struggled with being able to obtain tickets at regular price. Part of the problem is that many online scalpers have perfected the art of snatching tickets up as soon as they’re available to the public with the use of bots. Fans can breathe a sigh of relief, however, because just this week, President Obama signed The Better Online Ticket Sales (BOTS) Act to help combat this.

It’s unfortunate that this online ticket scalping problem has become so rampant that it’s taken governmental action to try to put an end to it. That blows our minds. But, in our opinion, the BOTS Act should be good for the consumer (and it’s about time!). It’ll allow for more tickets to be available at face value for consumers online than ever before. Event ticket vendor Ticketmaster commented yesterday, “On behalf of artists, venues, teams, and especially fans, we applaud the BOTS Act being signed into federal law.”

The BOTS Act won’t be good for everyone, though.   For consumers with fatter wallets who’ve grown accustomed to purchasing tickets last minute, and at inflated prices, the availability of those second-chance tickets may now be slim to none.

The BOTS Act doesn’t really impact AlertBot, but if someone had been considering the creation of an automated script on our system for use in buying highly sought after tickets as soon as they come on sale, that won’t be possible anymore.   That’s not a use case we’ve ever thought of before, but we suppose it was a possible scenario.  As of this week, however, the AlertBot team will not be allowing any scripts of this nature to be used on the AlertBot system (and as far as we know, there have never been).  However, if you work for a ticket sales website and have been thinking of monitoring your own ticket purchasing pages and shopping cart, you can still do that with AlertBot.  That’s exactly what AlertBot is meant for, and the BOTS Act provides an exception in the law to allow online ticketing operators to use bots to monitor and test their own systems for flaws.  That’s a good thing!  As we know, some of these ticket vending sites could use some improvement.

In mid-July of this year, the BOTS Act was first presented to the Senate and, on December 7th, the House passed/agreed to it without objection. It was then presented to the President on Monday this week, which he then signed. This Act, which applies to online sales for any public event exceeding 200 people, was the first of its kind pertaining to online bots and can be viewed in its entirety here.

Allentown, PA / September 21, 2016 / PR Newswire
InfoGenius.com, Inc., a software company and developer of the leading TrueBrowser®-based web application monitoring solution, AlertBot, is pleased to announce that they are now SAM certified and are looking to grow their relationships with Federal and State Governments. TrueBrowser® technology combines advanced performance tracking and error detection with real web browser testing to provide customers with best-in-class website monitoring solutions. Downtime of any length can be costly for any website or online business; AlertBot’s Website Monitoring Service uses TrueBrowser® technology to launch real web browsers and test websites inside those browsers, including mission-critical financial transactions conducted on government websites, login pages and other mission-critical pages. Learn More about Trusted Government Website Monitoring.

“With 85 Global Test Locations operating over 7 Internet Backbones developed during the past decade, AlertBot has established their reputation in real-world private industry applications; this level of website testing and monitoring is both proven and ready for Public Service Deployment as Federal and State Agencies rollout ‘Next Gen’ consumer style, interactive websites,” states Pedro Pequeno, President of InfoGenius.com, Inc. He continues: “We’re looking forward to showcasing AlertBot’s TrueBrowser® technology and capabilities to Governmental Agencies throughout the country and help them validate their client usage.”

AlertBot serves over 10,000 users spanning 6 continents worldwide with 200 million website checks per month. Their Synthetic Monitoring is designed to detect all possible application errors and collect important performance metrics as part of its monitoring routine. This data gives government organizations, including the U.S. Department of Energy, Virginia state government, NOAA, U.S. Marine Corps, and Smithsonian Institution, the information they need to ensure their applications are always running error-free and providing a quality user experience. AlertBot has registered to do business with Federal and State Agencies using the following registrations: DUNS: 624818493; CAGE: 6QP16; NAICS: 518210, 454111, & 334290.

About AlertBot:
Since launching in 2006, AlertBot has provided industry-leading TrueBrowser® web application monitoring. Thousands of companies trust AlertBot to continuously monitor their mission critical websites for errors and performance issues that affect user experience. Visit www.AlertBot.com for more information.

About InfoGenius.com, Inc.:
Founded in 1999 by a group of engineers, InfoGenius prides itself in building and delivering quality enterprise-class services that help businesses, both small and large, realize their greatest potential online. InfoGenius conducts its business through its network of independently branded services including AlertBot, ELayer and UptimeSafe. Visit www.infogenius.com for more information.

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Allentown, PA / April 11, 2016 / PR Newswire
InfoGenius.com, Inc., a software company and developer of the leading real-time web application monitoring solution, AlertBot, celebrates a decade of website and server monitoring. Downtime of any length can be costly for any website or online retailer; AlertBot’s Website Monitoring Service provides best-in-class site monitoring using its TrueBrowser® technology to launch real web browsers and test websites inside those browsers, including mission-critical financial transactions conducted on e-commerce-driven websites, login pages and other mission-critical pages. AlertBot serves over 10,000 users with 200 million website checks per month using its network of over 100 locations, spanning 6 continents worldwide.

“AlertBot measures every facet of a website to help our clients improve the user experience; our testing helps clients make adjustments that result in measurable gains – for instance, a major e-commerce player measured gains of $1.4 million for every second of response time their platform improved – that small improvement netted them $18 million in revenue!” states Pedro Pequeno, President of InfoGenius.com, Inc. He continues: “Over the past 10-years, AlertBot has been deployed and proven in countless real-world applications by some of the leading names in the e-commerce space.”

AlertBot’s Synthetic Monitoring is designed to detect all possible application errors and collect important performance metrics as part of its monitoring routine. This data gives businesses including Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Chrysler, Mutual of Omaha, Sony, Microsoft & Dell Computing the information they need to ensure their applications are always running error-free and providing a quality user experience.

About AlertBot:
Since launching in 2006, AlertBot has provided industry-leading TrueBrowser® web application monitoring. Thousands of companies trust AlertBot to continuously monitor their mission critical websites for errors and performance issues that affect user experience. Visit www.AlertBot.com for more information.

About InfoGenius.com, Inc.:
Founded in 1999 by a group of engineers, InfoGenius prides itself in building and delivering quality enterprise-class services that help businesses, both small and large, realize their greatest potential online. InfoGenius conducts its business through its network of independently branded services including AlertBot, ELayer and UptimeSafe. Visit www.infogenius.com for more information.

The report examined several sites that had experienced minor to substantial down times over the course of Friday thru Sunday, including NeimanMarcus.com and Staples.com. Our report, however, did not take into account Cyber Monday or the sales-heavy weeks that have followed.

On Cyber Monday, Neiman Marcus seemed to right the ship, while only a few sites appeared to experience no more than about 10-minute failures–including NewEgg.com and Staples–with Gap’s site registering 19 minutes of being unresponsive.

Throughout this month of December, Staples has continued to struggle with short outages; Walmart experienced some brief HTTP errors; while Footlocker, PC Mall, Crate & Barrel and Peapod all experienced just a couple few-minute hiccups (which in some cases could simply just be sluggish load times).

With online sales outperforming brick and mortar sales this Black Friday for the first time, it’s imperative now more than ever to make sure your site stays up and working, error-free. Sign up for a free 14-day trial with AlertBot.com today and start working towards a more successful ecommerce site!

While websites like Walmart, Fanatics and QVC experienced a couple several-minute outages on Thanksgiving Day, one of the sites that seemed to struggle the most on Black Friday this year was the online destination for department store Neiman Marcus. The site even experienced a downtime of two hours in the morning.

Second only to NeimanMarcus.com, however, is online tech retailer Newegg.com, who experienced some slow page load times no doubt due to the heightened traffic. Finally, Staples.com also experienced some short outages, but nothing more than a few minutes each.

Through Saturday and Sunday, it was much of the same with Neiman Marcus, Staples and Newegg, with Walmart seeing a few hiccups and Shutterfly.com experiencing a 45-minute outage due to the server being overloaded with traffic. Sony’s Playstation Network also experienced some significant downtime on Saturday, which also affected their online store.

Downtime of any length can be costly for any online retailer. According to this article by Evolven.com, “The average cost of data center downtime across industries was $5,600 per minute.” Clearly, that would add up real quick – especially on a major shopping day.

With AlertBot’s monitoring services, not only can you be alerted the moment your site experiences an outage or slow load times, but you’ll be able to use the AlertBot charts and reports to find potential hang-ups and future problems that will result in unnecessary downtime.

Give AlertBot a try with our totally free trial period and start seeing how AlertBot can look out for your business to help you prevent serious financial loss and online disasters.

Neeraj posted screenshots from his personal Android browser that indicated a new red “SLOW” icon branded next to links for YouTube and even a Google search result (scholar.google.co.in, to be exact). Today, we tried to replicate the same result on an iPhone, but were unable to bring up any “Slow” icons on our search results. (And comments on Neeraj’s report page seemed to reflect similar experiences.)

So what does this mean? It’s possible that Neeraj happened to stumble on a brief Google testing of an upcoming new search result feature, and if this is indeed on the horizon for the near future, website owners may want to do all they can to avoid that little dreaded scarlet branding.

Should this feature come to light soon, now would really be the ideal time to find a Website monitoring solution for your business’s website to ensure visitors and new clients aren’t deterred by Google’s little warning.

Click here for a list of solutions and more info on how AlertBot can help.

We have released the latest version of AlertBot. The release introduces a new interface when adding a monitor along with a new “Last 10 Waterfall Captures” report.

Monitor Type Interface:

We have done away with the old school dropdown boxes that were displayed when selecting your monitor type and created a new, more descriptive menu, which includes key features and capabilities of each monitor type. We have also changed the monitor names to better reflect the type of test they perform. Our goal with these changes is to make choosing the right monitor type easier.

New “Last 10 Waterfall Captures” Report

The new report shows the last ten waterfalls captured and is part of the larger Website Performance, Transaction Performance and Failure Analysis Reports. This is useful when you’ve recently had performance related errors or if you want to see how your performance varies between tests.
Moving To Next Generation “Real Browser” Monitoring

Another highlight of this release is that customers now have the ability to add our TrueBrowser® Website Full Page Monitors on their own. Previously, our team added the TrueBrowser Website Full Page Monitors while we were deploying additional TrueBrowser Test Stations to increase our capacity. Now that we have built up our capacity, we are opening up the doors for everyone to add this monitor type! This change is part of our move to focus our offering on TrueBrowser Website Monitoring, which provides the best error detection and the most accurate performance reporting.

AlertBot currently offers three types of Real Browser Monitoring: Full Page and Mobile Page, used to monitor individual pages, and the Multi-Step Web Transaction for monitoring online processes like logins and buying a product online.

We have released the latest version of AlertBot. This is a minor release that includes performance enhances to reports and a bunch of fixes.

Here’s a Breakdown:

– Improved the performance of reports
– Fixed Transfer Rate report key on accounts with a large quantity of monitors
– Fixed broken links in Quick Links side bar
– Fixed Black links on Quick Stats reports that happened on accounts with a large quantity of monitors