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A friendly field guide

What does it all mean?

Every number, badge, and acronym on WebWatch, explained in plain English with real-world examples and what each one actually does for your site. No jargon, no fluff. Seven short guides, each with something to click, tap, or build.

Part 1

Uptime & status

The six monitoring statuses decoded, and why 99% uptime is nearly 15 minutes of downtime every day.

Click through six statuses
Part 2

Performance

DNS, TCP, TTFB and download: where load time actually goes, and what counts as fast.

Run the timing relay
Part 3

SSL & security

Five layers of delivery security, from the certificate to the headers, built up one tap at a time.

Build the five-layer shield
Part 4

Alerts & on-call

Confirmation windows, digests, escalation and webhooks: the levers that keep alerts useful.

Six levers, one sane setup
Part 5

SEO basics

The nine on-page signals an audit checks, each with the real-world reason it matters.

Toggle a live share card
Part 6

Scores & grades

The exact 18-check rubric behind the score, and an interactive builder to try it yourself.

Build your own score
Part 7

Quick glossary

Nineteen three-letter mysteries decoded, from DNS and TTFB to HSTS, HMAC and SAN.

Nineteen terms, searchable
Why we wrote this

Monitoring tools love jargon, and jargon is how small problems hide until they are big ones. Every guide here explains one screenful of WebWatch in the words we would use across a kitchen table, so when a check goes red at 2am you already know what it means and what to do next.

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