Performance

Performance articles and guides from the kant.au team.

11 August 2026

Your Uptime Monitor Said 99.9%. Your Customers Disagreed.

A 99.9% uptime badge looks like proof nothing went wrong. It’s proof of something much narrower: that a server answered a request quickly enough, often enough. Whether the page it returned actually worked for the person waiting on it is a different question, and most uptime monitoring never asks it. What uptime monitoring actually measures […]

24 June 2026

Your Lighthouse Score Was 94 Last Week. What About the Week Before?

Performance

How-To

Lighthouse

A Lighthouse score is a snapshot. It tells you where the site stands right now, at this moment, on this run. It doesn’t tell you whether that number has been climbing, dropping, or quietly deteriorating for the past three months while nobody was watching. Most performance conversations start when a score is already bad. “Why […]