They say necessity is the mother of invention, right? :-)

About a week ago, I published a simple little page called https://getstat.dev. It's live now.

It's nothing fancy; just an easy client-centric way to verify connectivity to the public internet without the excessive bloat of visiting an actual web site. I published it because I couldn't really find anything else like it. Testing baseline layer-7 connectivity usually required living in the world of HTTP return codes or visiting a random bloated site. Sometimes when debugging/troubleshooting you just need a simple target site to run a straight-forward check.

This page has a few things going for it:

• It's small (less than 100 bytes of page data going to the requesting client).
• It's fast (static content with transmission times averaging under 250 milliseconds).
• The output is script-friendly (assuming the respective monitoring tools can parse text).

Frankly though, the best part is what's NOT there: No scripts, no dynamic content, no cookies, no popups, no input forms, no images, no css, no APIs, no third-party scripts, and no AI assistants offering to chat.

It's literally just a status string and a frequently updated timestamp. Don't believe me? Check out the complete page source (attached :-))

Anyway, I know it's a bit silly but I thought I'd mention it in case it's useful to someone else too. Have a great weekend, y'all!