DOJ.me Will Let You Know If A Site Is Down Or Is It Just You
In today’s world of broadband connection speed to the Internet we, the users, got a little spoiled. When a site doesn’t immediately open up – it frustrates us. Google Chrome even has a nice feature which starts to load a site while you’re still typing the URL; maximum efforts are being made to get the site to the visitor ASAP!
But what happens when the site won’t open up? Has the server crashed? Your eyes probably drop on that networking icon, you’re checking your Skype or any other IM application to see if everything is OK. Some of you will even send an IM to a friend to confirm that everything is good on your side of the Internet.
Is It Down?
Well, there is a better and easier way to check what’s going on. DOJ.me (Down or just me) is a simple online tool that will check if a particular site is down for everyone, or the problem lies somewhere in your router or the ISP.
Next time you get to a site which won’t open, enter its URL into DOJ.me. Once you confirm, you’ll get the information about the state of the site – has it really gone down or you just need to check your Internet connection.
Beauty Is In The Details
As well as in the eyes of the beholder, beauty of the tools and applications you use lies in the details. DOJ.me is a simple, plain application which checks the responsiveness of the server somewhere in the world. Nothing special or new about it. DOJ.me will however give you a simple bookmarklet which you can drag into your bookmarks folder. Now every time you get to an unresponsive website, just click the bookmarklet and find out is the site down, or is it you.
That’s a lesson you can learn from DOJ.me; it doesn’t matter if you’re building a service that already exists. Aside from healthy competition, if you can give something useful to your audience, you will win. When you need to know is the site down, you don’t want to go Googling for a similar service and then type in the URL – you just want to click the button and get the information.
