Overview

Fast Technical Health Checks

Website Availability is the fastest way to monitor whether a website is reachable and responding as expected.

It is designed for technical health checks such as:

• website uptime,
• expected HTTP status codes,
• redirect behavior,
• request timeout limits,
• and SSL or TLS certificate validation.

When to Use Website Availability

Choose this test type when you want a lightweight signal that your website is technically healthy without running a full browser journey.

This is a strong fit for:

• homepage uptime monitoring,
• landing page reachability,
• redirect validation,
• SSL certificate expiry checks,
• and regional health checks from different locations.

What It Does Well

Website Availability is optimized for speed and frequent execution.

• It gives you a fast canary check for outages and infrastructure issues.
• It helps detect unexpected HTTP responses before users report them.
• It can validate SSL and TLS configuration details, not just page reachability.
• It can be run from different locations to catch region-specific problems.

What It Does Not Replace

Website Availability checks technical health, but it does not replace browser-level functional testing.

If you need to verify that a user can log in, complete checkout, submit a form, or see the correct UI state, use Website Scenario.

If you need to monitor performance quality over time, use Website Vitals.

Explore Website Availability

Audit HTTP Control request method, timeouts, redirects, HTTP version, and expected status codes.

Audit SSL Monitor certificate expiry, TLS version, full chain validation, and wildcard usage.

Extra Headers Attach custom headers for routing rules, bot management, or authenticated checks.

Location Run availability checks from different regions to detect geography-specific issues.