Website Uptime

Website uptime describes the proportion of a period during which a website or service is available according to a chosen monitoring method. For a small service business, an outage may prevent customers from reading service details or submitting inquiries. Uptime checks can alert a site owner to failures, but a successful basic check does not guarantee that every form, payment step, or page feature is working. Monitoring frequency and test location also affect what gets detected. Uptime is different from page speed: a site can respond slowly while remaining technically available. Businesses should know who receives alerts and what steps are taken when problems occur.