---
title: "Site Load Test"
slug: "site-load-scout-1"
tags: ["Synthetic Monitoring"]
updated: 2026-02-23T19:18:55Z
published: 2026-02-23T19:18:55Z
canonical: "support.controlup.com/site-load-scout-1"
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://support.controlup.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Site Load Scout

The Site Load Scout provides comprehensive statistics when loading a website, including how long it took, what content was loaded, and how fast each content type loaded.

## Create a Site Load Scout

1. In the Synthetic Monitoring top bar, click **Create Scout** to open the **Add New Scout** window.
2. From the **Applications** tab, select **Site load** as the Scout **Type**.
3. Select the locations (**Hives**) from which you want to initiate the test.
4. Enter the **URL** of the site you want to test. You must include "http" or "https" at the beginning of the URL.
5. Enter a **Name** for the Scout.
6. Select how often you want to test the resource using the **Run Every** slider. You can choose any interval from 5 to 60 minutes, in increments of 5 minutes (5, 10, 15, 20, and so on).
7. Optionally, add **Tags** to your Scout. Tags are key-value pairs which can be used to organize your Scouts. To learn more about tags, visit [Centralized Tags Management](/v1/docs/centralized-tags-management).
8. Optionally, click **Show additional parameters** to configure the following:
  - **SSL Verify**. Sets whether the Scout checks for a trusted SSL certificate on the website. If you select **Yes** and the certificate isn't trusted, then the test fails.
  - **Timeout**. Sets the maximum wait time for the test to finish.
  - **Look for a string in the response**. Sets a string that the Scout searches for in the response. If the string isn't found, then the test fail.
  - **Success Codes**. Sets which HTTP status codes the Scout considers a successful response.
9. Click **Next: Alert Policy** to set up alerts and notifications on the Scout before saving it. For more information, visit [Alert Policies](/tim-reorg/docs/alert-policies).

## Test Results

Click on a test result to see the full details of the Site Load test. In this example, you can see the type of information that is returned for a Site Load test to https://www.citrix.com.

You can see a summary of the Scout configuration, a screenshot of the website, and page load statistics.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/098100b7-b9da-4bea-b4b9-017140ab863e/Images/Documentation/SiteLoadScout6.png)

### Filter Test Results

From the same result window, you can display performance metrics in circle-packing diagrams.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/098100b7-b9da-4bea-b4b9-017140ab863e/Images/Documentation/SiteLoadScout7.png)

- **Size by Content Type** shows the size of the various content types, such as CSS, HTML, or images.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/098100b7-b9da-4bea-b4b9-017140ab863e/Images/Documentation/SiteLoadScout8.png)

- **Size by Domain** shows the content size, sorted by domain.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/098100b7-b9da-4bea-b4b9-017140ab863e/Images/Documentation/SiteLoadScout9.png)

- **Time by Content Type** shows the loading time for each type of content.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/098100b7-b9da-4bea-b4b9-017140ab863e/Images/Documentation/SiteLoadScout10.png)

In this view, you can also fine-tune the search result by viewing which image took the longest to load. In this example, the img-22-gartner-market-guide.jpg file loaded in 1.77 seconds.

  

- **Time by Domain** shows the loading time of the content, sorted by domain.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/098100b7-b9da-4bea-b4b9-017140ab863e/Images/Documentation/SiteLoadScout11.png)

This window also displays information about the loaded content. Click on the arrow at the end of the line to view the **Overview** of the content. In this example, a font with a size of 117.80 KB was loaded in 1.73 seconds.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/098100b7-b9da-4bea-b4b9-017140ab863e/Images/Documentation/SiteLoadScout12.png)

You can find more information on the relevant tab. For example, you can see the response sent back from the website in the **Response** tab.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/098100b7-b9da-4bea-b4b9-017140ab863e/Images/Documentation/SiteLoadScout13.png)