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Term
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Description
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| Connect |
The time take to "connect" to the machines holding the web pages. |
| Content |
The time taken to receive all text and images on the Rotherham homepage. As connection speeds differ, a minimum, maximum and average are shown in the reports. |
| Connection Failed |
Checks are made from three geographic locations every fifteen minutes, if one of these checks report the site is unavailable a connection failure is added. |
| DNS |
This stands for "Domain Name System" and is the first check made by a browser when surfing to a page (i.e to check that the address actually exists). |
| Download Timed Out |
Checks are made from three geographic locations every fifteen minutes, if one of these checks report the site takes longer than twenty seconds to appear a download time out is added. |
| HTML |
This stands for "Hypertext Mark-up Language" and is the code that most pages are written in. When you surf to a page it will take some time to read this code, this time is shown in the reports. |
| Number of verified failures |
If an access attempt from multiple Axzona monitoring stations reports failure simultaneously a verified failure is added. Rotherham Metropolitan Council receives an alert whenever a verified failure is detected. |
| Number of failed accesses |
If an access attempt fails from a single Axzona monitoring station, a failed access is added. |
| Percentage Verified Up-Time |
A percentage to show the amount of time in which the site was available (i.e when surfed would appear on screen). |
| Total number of accesses |
The total amount of checks that have been made by Axzona over the specified time period. |