One login beats six, every time.
Six application logins, timed side by side against one — with a password-reset detour thrown in for realism, because that is what actually happens on the fourth one.
Hover to pause · the clock restarts on its own · times are modelled, not measured
The gap is not speed. It is how many times you are asked.
A single login is not faster because the login itself is quicker — it is the same form. It is faster because it happens once, and because the thing that usually goes wrong has one place to go wrong instead of six.
- 6 sign-ins
- One per application, because each one keeps its own credential store and has no idea the others exist.
- 1 reset
- The fourth one. Not pessimism — a password nobody types daily is a password nobody remembers, and the reset costs more than the login it replaced.
- 0 shared signal
- Six sign-ins produce six unrelated log entries in six systems. Nothing correlates them, so nothing can answer what this person reached today.
- 1 sign-in
- Carrying MFA and a device check, at the start of the session rather than six times through it.
- 6 tiles
- Provisioned applications, opened from the portal. What appears is what the group entitles — the interface is the entitlement.
- 1 trail
- One authentication event, one session, one place to look. And one action to end all of it when the person leaves.
How the times were arrived at
The race is a model of a normal morning, not a stopwatch on a lab bench. Each sign-in is allowed roughly fourteen seconds — find the tab, type the address, type the password, wait for the response — and one of the six runs into a forgotten password and a reset link, which is the single most common interruption in this sequence.
The InstaSafe side is one sign-in of the same length, carrying MFA, after which the portal opens what the person is entitled to. Nothing here is measured against a competitor and nothing is a benchmark; it is the arithmetic of doing something once instead of six times, drawn out so it can be watched.