Status page improvements: honest uptime, clearer incidents, better on phones

Karl

A few changes to status pages are now live.

Uptime figures are more accurate. The headline uptime figure could read 100% even when a page showed days with downtime, because it was rounded up. Figures now round down, so any downtime at all shows as less than 100%. A monitor's uptime is also now measured from when it was created, rather than over a full 90 days that included the time before it existed. If your page shows a lower number than before, that is the reason: nothing new went down, the figure is just honest now. The colored day bars were already accurate and have not changed.

Incident updates are in plain language. When a check failed with a long error, the incident timeline could show the raw error text, sometimes including part of the other site's error page. It now shows a short description instead, such as "server error (500 Internal Server Error)".

Status pages work better on phones. A monitor with a long address could push the page wider than the screen. Long text now wraps, on the public page and in the monitor list and status page editor on your dashboard.

If anything on your status page still looks wrong, open a ticket from Support.

Morgan

I really appreciate the effort you put in to making the pages clean on mobile, too.

Speaking as someone often stuck relying on mobile without access to a laptop (Heck, I learned to program css with only my cell phone until I finally got access to a laptop a year and a half later, that was an adventure, hahah!), I'm often stuck chafing against poor mobile design, so it always stands out when mobile feels just as clean as computer. Thank you.

Karl

Morgan you're really kind! Thank you!