Website monitoring is valuable to your website’s SEO rankings and traffic. Although most website monitoring services charge unnecessary monthly fees in order to monitor your website’s performance. In my experience, nothing beats free website monitoring. I’ve found a few services that offer free, but most don’t have all the features that I want.

At bare minimum, you want to make sure any free website monitoring service will email you when your site goes down. If you have to log in and check to see your downtimes, the purpose of the website monitoring service is deafeated. Most webmasters check their email multiple times a day, so an emailing option is important.