What Do the Status Badges Mean?

What Do the Status Badges Mean?

Throughout Blimey, you'll see coloured status badges that indicate your store's availability. Here's what each one means.

Online (Green)

Your store responded successfully to the check. Customers can access your store normally. The HTTP status code was below 400 (typically 200).

Degraded (Yellow)

Your store responded, but with a client error status code (400-499, except 404). This might indicate:

  • Rate limiting issues
  • Authentication problems
  • Configuration issues

Your store may still be partially accessible, but something isn't quite right.

Down (Red)

Your store did not respond or returned a server error. This means:

  • HTTP status code was 500 or higher, OR
  • The request timed out, OR
  • The connection was refused or failed (DNS issues, SSL problems, etc.)

Customers likely cannot access your store.

Unknown (Blue)

No check data is available yet. This typically appears when:

  • You've just installed Blimey and the first check hasn't run yet
  • There's no data for the selected timeframe
Last updated on March 5, 2026