Website Monitoring Tools market in 2020 (infographic)

How many website monitoring service providers are there, worldwide? Where are they from? What features do they offer? How much do they charge?

You can learn the answers to these questions and much more from our infographic below.
In May 2020, we conducted research analysing and comparing website monitoring offers from all over the world. Here is a graphical presentation of what we found out.
 

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Did you know there are around 170 active website monitoring service providers?
It is a harsh market; brands continuously appear and disappear.
More than 160 providers have already gone out of business.

Place of origin

Where are the active website monitoring providers located?

Age

How long have the website monitoring tools been on the market?

• less than 5 years: 44%
• 5-9 years: 27.5%
• 10-14 years: 18%
• 15-19 years: 7.5%
• 20 years and more: 3%

Monitoring network

How many server locations do website monitoring tools use?

• 1-5: 27.63%
• 6-10: 26.32%
• 11-15: 18.42%
• 16-30: 7.89%
• 31-50: 9.21%
• 51-100: 3.95%
• more than 100: 6.58%

Free trial

Who offers a free trial and how long is the trial period?

66% of providers offer a free trial

Free trial duration:

• 14-16 days: 59%
• 30 days: 29%
• 7-10 days: 8%
• 21 days: 2.5%
• 90 days: 1.5%

Pricing

How much does website monitoring cost?

51% of providers offer a free plan

Monthly fee for the lowest plan:

• $5-$9.99: 31.5%
• $1-$4.99: 23.5%
• $10-$19.99: 21%
• $20-$49.99: 13%
• less than $1: 6%
• $50 and more: 5%

Monitoring features

What monitoring functions do the providers offer?

• Phrase Matching: 46%
• Page Speed Monitoring: 26%
• Transaction Monitoring: 19.5%
• Real User Monitoring: 9.5%
• Domain Expiration Monitoring: 15.5%
• SSL Certificate Expiration Monitoring: 47%
• Virus/Malware Detecting: 4.5%
• Email Delivery Monitoring: 7%
• API Monitoring: 22%

Alerts

What channels are used to deliver notifications?

• Email Alerts: 100%
• Text (SMS) Alerts: 75%
• Voice Call Alerts: 24.5%
• Push Alerts: 12.5%

Some other ways to present monitoring data:

• Status Pages: 41%
• Mobile Apps: 20%

Integrations

What external applications do website monitoring tools integrate with?

• Slack: 60%
• public API: 47.5%
• webhooks: 44%
• PagerDuty: 27.5%
• OpsGenie: 15.5%
• Pushover: 12.5%
• Twitter: 12%
• HipChat: 11%
• VictorOps: 10%
• Telegram: 8%
• WordPress: 8%
• Zapier: 7%
• Discord: 7%
• Jira: 6.5%
• Teams: 4.5%
• Trello: 4%
• Pushbullet: 4%
• ZenDesk: 3%
• Skype: 3%
• Google Hangouts: 2.5%