[computer]

People usually don't go to a status page to see if a page is reachable from their computer. They know that already. They want to know if it's a global issue, and if the company is aware that it's down, and when it will be back up.

[BorisMelnik]

good point, in our situation people check to see if the mail server is down etc

[andreasklinger]

for more complex usecases you could load an api status json endpoint instead