Black Friday Website Monitoring: The 2026 Checklist for Online Stores
Peak traffic exposes broken carts, payment gateways and caches. What to monitor before, during and after Black Friday and Cyber Monday. 14-day free trial.
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Online store monitoring blog
I write about what I see every day in PrestaShop, WooCommerce, Magento and Shopify stores: why a store returns 200 OK and still cannot take orders, how to get it ready for peak season and how to catch an outage before your customers do.
Peak season
Black Friday, Cyber Week and the holidays: how to prepare your store and what to measure at peak traffic.
Holiday Ecommerce Monitoring: Who Notices the Outage When Everyone Is Off?
Your team is off, shoppers are not. How to set alerts, on-call and checkout checks for December, so a broken cart does not sit unnoticed until January.
Ecommerce platforms
PrestaShop, WooCommerce, Magento and Shopify: typical platform failures and how to catch them early.
PrestaShop Bot Protection: Cloudflare Rules That Don't Block Customers or Payments
Stop credential stuffing, fake accounts and scanners on PrestaShop with Cloudflare Free, without blocking shoppers, payment callbacks or uptime monitoring.
WooCommerce checkout not working: causes, a 15-minute diagnosis and how to catch it before customers do
Payment gateways missing, shipping methods gone or a critical error at checkout? Block vs shortcode, common causes and how to catch it before customers do.
Store problems
Missing payment and shipping methods, slow pages, errors after updates: step-by-step diagnosis.
Payment method or shipping option missing at checkout: causes and a step-by-step fix
A payment gateway or carrier vanished from checkout? Common causes in PrestaShop, WooCommerce and Magento, step-by-step diagnosis and how to get alerted.
Slow online store: what site speed really does to your conversion rate (and how to measure checkout)
What the data says about site speed and ecommerce conversion, TTFB vs Core Web Vitals, where PrestaShop and WooCommerce lose time and how to time checkout.