# davecheney/httpstat

It's like curl -v, with colours.

Repository: https://github.com/davecheney/httpstat
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/httpstat
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2025-01-11T03:52:02+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 34/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 1, release rhythm 40, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3631, "days_push": 599, "days_rel": 599, "gap_med": 0, "n_releases_24m": 2}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 7187, forks 379 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:56.507647+00:00)

## What it is
httpstat is a Go CLI tool that visualizes HTTP request timing breakdowns (DNS, connection, TLS, server processing) with colored output, similar to curl -v. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, redirects, custom methods, headers, request bodies, and proxies.

## Use cases
- measure http request latency breakdown from the command line
- debug slow tls handshake times
- see dns connect and ttfb timing for a url
- trace http redirects with timing details
- diagnose why a website loads slowly
- test http endpoints with custom headers and methods

## When to choose
- you want a quick colored timing breakdown of an http request without parsing curl output
- you need a lightweight single-binary diagnostic tool on linux, bsd, or windows
- you want curl-like flags (-X, -H, -d, -L) for timing analysis

## When to avoid
- you need a maintained successor - the author points to reorx/httpstat as the actively developed fork
- you need full curl feature coverage like cookies, auth schemes, or http/2/3 tuning
- you need graphical dashboards or continuous monitoring rather than one-off diagnostics

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: http-client, cli, developer-tools, monitoring
- domain: developer-tools, web-development, networking, performance
- platform: windows, bsd, cli, go
- tags: http-timing, curl-alternative, latency-breakdown, diagnostics, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- davecheney/httpstat (main) score 34

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:56.507647+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:39:54.318875+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/davecheney/httpstat (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:56.507647+00:00, sha 76190efe6204)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.