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What good is this without including some "how busy is this site?"-metric like requests per second? Or the amount of data served?

• riffer 16y ago
  Why would users care how many requests there are per second, or how much data is being served?
  • scrrr 16y ago
    You're right, but in this case I assumed not the users but the HN-readers were the target audience. And I think many are interested in performance benchmarks. I think it makes a difference wether a site with many requests is quick in comparison to a completely idle site.
    • krrh 16y ago
      Response time is public information where reqs/second is private. This does give some transparency to end users, and I could see sites linking up their status pages to this tool. You do get some more metrics in an actual signed up plan.