I accidentally built a "Zero-Trust" trap for developers (and how I fixed my 2-second bounce rate)

Hey DEV community 👋, I recently built a side project: A GitHub Actions Cost Calculator . The goal was simple—help devs figure out exactly how much their CI/CD pipelines are burning through their wallets before the actual GitHub invoice arrives. I coded it, made the UI clean, and deployed it. I was pretty proud of it. Then, I shared the link on a few tech forums and checked my Google Analytics a couple of days later. The data was a massive reality check. 📉 The Brutal Analytics: Total Active Users: 68 Event Count: 366 The US Traffic Average Engagement Time: ... 2 seconds. 💀 Yes, 2 seconds. People were clicking the link, the page was loading, and they were instantly mashing the back button. But here is the crazy part: A small segment of users (mostly from India) had an average engagement time of 11 minutes and 14 seconds . They were running massive, heavy calculations. Why the huge divide? What was making 80% of devs run away in 2 seconds? The "Zero-Trust" Epiphany I looked at my UI like