The data of the reply

[Stone_ll]

I find that the data of the reply or the average reply is not exact truth.
Maybe I do not understand the meaning of your date of the reply.
Take a example:
I manually visit a website:http://www.microsoft.com
The result of the site been opened is 5 seconds.
But it is only 3000 ms or less by HM testing.
Can you give me the whole explanation to me?
Thanks a lot..

[KS-Soft Europe]

In fact, HostMonitor is designed to monitor web servers functionality, it is not designed to completely simulate client components. By default, "URL" test method just sends request to specified web server and receives HTTP status code. According to this status code, HostMonitor set the status for the test (200 - "Host is alive", 400 - "Bad", etc.) HostMonitor does not start downloading content and images, while Internet Explorer is starting downloading content immediately. That's why you see the difference in response time. If you enable "Check content" option, HostMonitor will load content as well. If you enable "Download nested" frames and "Download" images option, HostMonitor will download all images and frames, so response time will be increased.

Actually, I am sure different browsers (IE, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Safari, etc.) opens websites with different time, so I do not think you should check the website availability by browser response.

Regards,
Max