Speed Stats
A quick, plain-language readout of how snappy your accounting feels - timed against your real data, never a demo.
Overview
Ever wished your accounting app would simply tell you it's running well? That's what Speed Stats does. With a single click it puts a stopwatch on your own reports and gives you an easy-to-read verdict. For anyone who has watched older desktop software grind to a halt as the data piled up, this is welcome peace of mind - clear evidence that Kantivo stays quick.
Everything it does is read-only. Your records are never touched, and nothing is estimated - the numbers are pulled straight from your live company file.
Opening the Panel
You can get to Speed Stats in two places:
- Top navigation: open the More ▾ menu and select 📊 Speed Stats. Prefer it on your main bar? Pin it with the customize gear.
- Business Dashboard: a compact Speed Stats card sits near the top of the dashboard with an at-a-glance summary - clicking it opens the full view.
Once the panel is open, press Run health check to take fresh measurements.
What Gets Timed
A check stopwatches the tasks you lean on most:
| Measurement | What's being timed |
|---|---|
| Balance Sheet | Summing every journal line in the company |
| Income Statement | Producing a profit-and-loss for a date range |
| Busiest register | Opening your highest-traffic account, usually the bank |
| Dashboard | Refreshing your headline figures |
It also verifies that the under-the-hood speed optimizations are active, which is what keeps your registers quick even after years of entries.
Understanding the Verdict
Every measurement gets a colour, and the headline sums up the overall result:
| Colour | What it means |
|---|---|
| Green | Instant - back in a fraction of a second |
| Amber | Still quick, just one to watch as you scale up |
| Red | Slower than ideal - get in touch and we'll tune it |
Timings appear in seconds (e.g. 0.02s) to match the way you experience a wait. Expand Details to see the individual figure for each measurement.
The All-Companies Tally
The main figures describe the company file you're viewing. Speed Stats also rolls up every transaction across all the company files you can access into a single grand tally - handy if you keep books for more than one business and want to see the whole picture at a glance. It only ever counts companies you're permitted to open.
Just How Fast?
We ran Kantivo through a deliberate stress test: keep adding transactions until a full Balance Sheet finally takes three seconds to generate. How many did it take?
26 million - roughly 52 million journal lines. To put that in perspective, many desktop accounting tools begin to stall around 200,000. For everyday bookkeeping, your reports will feel instant for a very long time to come.