Is Your Website "Up" or is it Actually Healthy? SiteVitals vs. UptimeRobot

If you’ve been in the web industry for more than a minute, you know UptimeRobot. Launched in 2010, it’s the "Old Guard" of monitoring. It’s reliable, it’s familiar, and it’s the tool many of us used for our very first side projects. But as we move through 2026, the web has changed. A website being "up" is no longer the finish line - it’s the bare minimum.