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But what does it do? #2 and #4 don't tell me anything.

You have to solve a customers pain point. What is the problem you're solving?

2 is just a generalization of 1 and 3. To expand on 4, currently I display how many crawler requests were made and the average response time. If I were to further invest, I'd split these metrics by path requested and have it available over any time interval.

Do you have any ideas on what other pain points I could solve with this idea?

But what does it do. Those are features..what is the end benefit a person gets from using your service?

Understood - so I should clearly state that crawlers can't usually see AJAX content and that this will allow them to see and index it, leading to more search engine traffic. I was cautious of spelling out the obvious, I didn't want to insult anyone's intelligence :D

There we go! Its not an insult..some hackers might not even know enough about SEO to understand your service..and even so, I don't think your market is just hackers. I'm a designer and am planning to build a SPA so I'd probably refer one of my developers to your service.

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