About MonitorMyHost

Free Website Uptime Monitoring, TTFB Test & Speed Analysis

MonitorMyHost is a website monitoring platform and free toolkit for developers, DevOps teams and SEO professionals. Monitor website uptime, run a free TTFB test, generate Lighthouse and Core Web Vitals reports, and use our DNS lookup, redirect checker and WHOIS lookup to find and fix problems before they hurt your traffic and rankings.

6+ Regions
Global Probe Locations
North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific
Down to 1m
Uptime Check Interval
Fast website downtime detection
5 Tools
Free Diagnostic Tools
TTFB, Lighthouse, DNS, Redirects, WHOIS
0
Agents to Install
Agentless external monitoring

Why We Built MonitorMyHost

A website that is down, slow or misconfigured loses visitors, sales and search rankings, often before anyone on the team notices. Most teams end up juggling one tool for an uptime check, another for a website speed test, and a third for a DNS lookup.

MonitorMyHost brings website uptime monitoring, server response time (TTFB) testing, Google Lighthouse analysis and DNS and domain diagnostics into one agentless platform. Everything runs from external probes, so you see your site the way real users and search engine crawlers do.

What You Can Monitor

Uptime, Performance and DNS Monitoring in One Platform

Multi-Location Website Uptime Monitoring

Independent probes in tier-1 data centers check your site at the same time from several continents. This confirms real outages, filters out false alarms from a single bad route, and shows how your site responds to visitors in each region, without browser cache getting in the way.

Instant Downtime Alerts

Catch server downtime, TLS handshake failures, timeouts and 5xx errors fast. Get notified by email, Slack, PagerDuty or custom webhook so your team can respond before customers or search engines notice.

Core Web Vitals & Lighthouse Analysis

Lighthouse audits run on mobile and desktop profiles and report Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), Total Blocking Time (TBT), SEO and accessibility issues, so you know exactly what to fix to improve page speed and rankings.

DNS, Redirect & Domain Diagnostics

Query authoritative nameservers for A, AAAA, MX, CNAME, TXT, NS and SOA records, trace HTTP redirect chains, and check WHOIS data. Everything you need to troubleshoot DNS propagation, email delivery and migration issues.

Built for Developers, DevOps, SEO Teams and Site Owners

Developers & DevOps teams

Monitor APIs, staging and production, and get alerted the moment a deploy breaks something.

SEO specialists & agencies

Audit TTFB, Core Web Vitals, redirects and DNS for every client site from one place.

Ecommerce & SaaS owners

Protect revenue by catching downtime and slow pages before they cost you checkouts and signups.

Freelancers & webmasters

Keep client websites online and prove uptime with clear monitoring history.

Knowledge Base

Frequently Asked Questions About Uptime Monitoring, TTFB & DNS

Answers about free uptime monitoring, TTFB testing, Core Web Vitals, DNS lookup and website performance.

What is MonitorMyHost?

MonitorMyHost is a website uptime monitoring and server performance platform with free online tools. It combines uptime checks, multi-location TTFB testing, Google Lighthouse Core Web Vitals reports, DNS lookup, redirect checking and WHOIS lookup, so you can find and fix website downtime and speed problems quickly.

Is there a free uptime monitor on MonitorMyHost?

Yes. You can create a free account and start monitoring your website uptime, response time and availability. The diagnostic tools (TTFB test, Lighthouse report, DNS lookup, redirect checker and WHOIS lookup) are free to use without signup or a credit card.

Is MonitorMyHost an alternative to UptimeRobot?

MonitorMyHost covers the same core need as tools like UptimeRobot: tracking whether your website is up and alerting you when it is not. It adds multi-location TTFB testing, Lighthouse and Core Web Vitals reports, DNS lookup and redirect tracing in the same platform, which makes it useful if you want uptime and performance analysis together.

What is a TTFB test and how do I test Time to First Byte for free?

Time to First Byte (TTFB) measures how long a browser waits to receive the first byte of a response after requesting a page. Enter your URL into our free TTFB test to see timing from multiple locations, including DNS lookup, connection, TLS and server processing time. As a rule of thumb, Google considers a TTFB under about 800 ms good.

Why does TTFB matter for SEO and Core Web Vitals?

TTFB is not a Core Web Vital itself, but a slow server response delays everything after it, including Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), which is a Core Web Vital and a Google page experience signal. Lowering TTFB with better hosting, caching and a CDN gives crawlers and visitors faster access to your content.

How does multi-location monitoring differ from a simple ping or single-location checker?

A single-location checker can miss regional outages and often hits a cached CDN node. MonitorMyHost tests from probes across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, so you see real availability and latency for visitors in different regions and can confirm an outage before alerting you.

Do I need to install an agent or plugin on my server?

No. MonitorMyHost works externally, like a real visitor. There is nothing to install, no root access required, and no performance overhead on your server.

How do I check DNS records and DNS propagation?

Use the free DNS lookup tool: enter your domain and choose a record type such as A, AAAA, MX, CNAME, TXT, NS or SOA. It helps you verify DNS changes, email (MX, SPF, DKIM) records and nameserver configuration after a migration.

How do I find out why my website is slow?

Start with a TTFB test to see whether the server is slow, then run a Lighthouse report to find front-end issues such as large images, render-blocking scripts and layout shifts. Check the redirect chain and DNS timing too, since both add delay before the page starts loading.

How do I get alerted when my website goes down?

Add your URL as a monitor, choose a check interval, and connect alert channels such as email, Slack, PagerDuty or a webhook. You are notified when the site goes down and again when it recovers.

Know the Moment Your Website Goes Down

Start free uptime monitoring in minutes, or try the TTFB test, DNS lookup and Lighthouse report right now without signing up.