Surprisingly Easy

This plugin uses monitoring by Uptime Robot, which is free and a terrific way to monitor website uptime/downtime. You have to set up this service first, which is free and easy and worthwhile.

Then you use this plugin to grab the info and drop it onto your website dashboard and/or pages or sidebars.

Suddenly, it’s all there and it all works, and it is so handy. You’ll also get email notices of downtime.

This looks more complicated because you need to set up two things — monitoring and plugin, but it’s easy and worth it!