Ask HN: How fast is your site? (A short bootstrap story)
Hi HN,
Today I opened up the first public version of a product I've been working on: it's a performance monitoring service called Stella that's like Pingdom for makers.
http://www.blamestella.com/
Some background: I stopped working full time 2 years ago to focus on my own projects. I put everything I owned in storage, took a month off, and then moved in with my mom to cut costs (to a small town in the Netherlands). I spent the first year learning and writing Ruby and this past year learning everything I could about building a product and running a business.
It's a much longer road than I first expected and who knows where it will lead, but I'm really happy I took the plunge!
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[ 3.6 ms ] story [ 43.9 ms ] thread- the bar on the left is the average of all sites tested in the previous week.
- the bar on the right is the site you're checking.
Each bar is broken down into the slowest, fastest, and average response times. You want to keep an eye out for large differences between each of these.
- "solutious averages" means nothing to me.
- What does the size of the bars mean, I get lots of blue, is that good?
- It says "SD 0.00" several times, what?
I do like that it simulates multiple users and requests and worked so smoothly. Will we be able to tune the number of tests run?
The summary results on the left should be the first thing you see with details later. The funny graph was what drew my eye first.
- I need to think more about what would make sense in just a couple words.
- Ya, lots of blue is good; lots of red is bad. This is a work in progress.
- SD == standard deviation. Lower is better.
Ya, you'll definitely be able to play around with the test parameters yourself. We included them in an earlier prototype but took them out b/c they introduced some non-trivial UI/UX challenges.
I actually used it, so that's a start!
Also, congrats on making something!!!