When you're building a site, an important aspect is how quickly it loads. But you also want to know when it's down, so that you can hold your hosting provider responsible for outages beyond their uptime guarantee. Pingdom will test single pages to determine how long they take to load and what order they load in. I used this just this weekend to realize that while I'd created a smaller background image, I wasn't pointing to it in the code! Oops! But what's even better about Pingdom is that you can set your site up to be monitored as often as once a minute and get an email or SMS when your site is not responding. And it's free.

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Web Design Software Pick of the Week: Pingdom originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Sunday, June 6th, 2010 at 10:43:38.

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