Website Monitoring Plan

Website Availability & Performance

Frequency: Monthly

Host of servers including web server and database servers are monitored periodically to ensure high availability and smooth functioning of the website.

Tools Used: https://tools.pingdom.com

Hyperlink Accuracy

Frequency: Quarterly

Process: While uploading of the content concerned division, checks for the hyperlink content posted on the page.

Administrator monthly visits all hyperlinks in the content on all the pages and tests the Hyperlink for the accuracy. The result is then shared with the respective uploading division.

Tools Used: Manually

Audit Log: The logs are maintained for audit purposes

Presence on the National Portal

Frequency: Quarterly

Process: Administrator monthly visits the national portal for presence of the content /details related to Intangible Cultural Heritage, Sangeet Natak Akademi, Autonomous organization of Ministry of Culture, Government of India, website.

Web information Manager should register all the relevant documents with National Portal and is advised to visit National Portal www.india.gov.in for the same, and he should ensure that all the Citizen Services, Forms, Documents and Schemes are registered with the respective repositories over the National Portal. He is advised to use various mode of communication i.e. email, Letter, etc. with National Portal admin department to update their services and schemes over the national portal.

Broken link Check

Frequency: Quarterly

Broken links on the website are checked every Quarterly using the W3C developer tool from “Link Checker” by using broken link checker and also ‘page not found’ errors are investigated. These ‘Page not found’ errors are reported to web information manager and WIM assign to the developer for immediate resolution.

Also, the Website is checked for dead links and these are removed immediately from the website. Validation of both internal and external URLs is done fortnightly.

Tools Used: Link Checker