You have uploaded your website on a web host and tested it from multiple machines in your network too. They all work fine. But have you wondered how does it work or whether works or not if somebody tries to access it from Dallas, USA or any other place in the world?

For example, China is a country which restricts site access which do not pass their strict paramaters. They even blocked Google on the claims that their search results are NOT filtered as per the government's mandate.

So, are you not interested in knowing about where in the world your website/blog is blocked or accessible? If yes, then read on.

WatchMouse is a simple online tool which helps you ping (open and test your webiste/blog) from multiple locations in the world. Although, you cannot select the specific location that you have thought of, the tool has its server located in enough number of countries to test your website for satisfactory results.

The toll internally uses a ping command which you might have used several times on your system's command prompt if you are a techie.

The tool's report looks something like this for am22tech.com:



The most important column to watch here is the Result. If it says Okay, your site is running fine.
If it says Monitoring station temporarily not available, this means that the WatchMouse server is currently not working for this location. So, you don't need to worry.
If the result is Packets Lost ([some Percentage]), then there is some issue with your website or the web host. It means that the watch mouse server at the current location was not able to access your website due to some reason. There could be multiple reasons for this packet lost like overload on your web host or something else.
You can retest your website after some time on same location and see if the results improve. If the tool consistently report packet lost for a particular location, you should contact your web host to identify the issue. The other possibility could be that your website has been blocked in that country but it is a rare possibility.

Why not use the ping command on my system itself?

Yes, you can do that. But the story will remain the same. Since you are running the ping command from your own system, the website will behave the same as you would open it from your internet browser. The idea here is to check your website's availability and load times from other locations in the world. For this, you need to access it from the machines which are actually located in that country/location.

Is there any other way of PINGing my website from different locations?

Yes, there are proxy servers available on internet which can solve the purpose. Proxy server is nothing but a machine which may be located in some other country. You can connect to this machine and try opening your website/blog in the internet browser on this machine (use the proxy server's network). You can find many of them FREEly available if you do a simple Google search.
But this, method is a bit time consuming as you would need to find different proxy servers for different countries and then test your website individually.