An overview of Reports section (part 2)

Author: ArunIn part one of the Report overview series, we reviewed the 'Availability reports' section. Today, we will discuss about Response time reports within the reports tab.As you know, response times are good indicators of how your website is performing. Here are some of the response time reports available:

The 'All websites availability report' gives you the response times of the various websites and web applications configured in your account, apart from showing availability of these sites.

Response time reports can be viewed for each website individually.

From the historical data section, you can find out the Response time details for your site at different times as well as segmented by hour of the day.

Response time report segmented by hour of the day

Based on these reports, you can get an idea about the performance of your websites and web applications over different periods of time. Before I sign off, here is a look at one question about response time that is frequently asked:

How do you define "response time"? Do you download the entire page and count the time until everything has loaded? Or just the time until the server responds?Response time is the time taken to get the full html output from the server. However, it does not include getting the images and other resources that are loaded within the html page.