diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0208e72..1bb13b3 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ An example site is available [here](https://lab.bdro.fr/tinystatus/).
 To install tinystatus:
 
 * Clone the repository and go to the created directory
-* Edit the checks file `checks.list`
+* Edit the checks file `checks.csv`
 * To add incidents or maintenance, edit `incidents.list`
 * Generate status page `./tinystatus > index.html`
 * Serve the page with your favorite web server
diff --git a/checks.csv b/checks.csv
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..176f1b6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/checks.csv
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+http,   200,  Google Website,         https://google.com
+http,   404,  Google 404,             https://google.com/dummy
+http4,  200,  Google website (IPv4),  https://google.com
+http6,  200,  Google website (IPv6),  https://google.com
+ping,   0,    Google ping,            8.8.8.8
+port,   0,    Google DNS,             8.8.8.8 53
diff --git a/checks.list b/checks.list
deleted file mode 100644
index 7375b0b..0000000
--- a/checks.list
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-http  | 200 | Google website        | https://google.com
-http4 | 200 | Google website (IPv4) | https://google.com
-http6 | 200 | Google website (IPv6) | https://google.com
-http  | 404 | Google 404            | https://google.com/dummy
-ping  | 0   | Google ping           | 8.8.8.8
-port  | 0   | Google dns            | 8.8.8.8 53
diff --git a/tinystatus b/tinystatus
index f2e7e34..ea0b35b 100755
--- a/tinystatus
+++ b/tinystatus
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 title=tinystatus
 timeout=10
 tmp="$(mktemp -d)"
-checkfile="${1:-checks.list}"
+checkfile="${1:-checks.csv}"
 incidentsfile="${2:-incidents.list}"
 useragent="User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; Debian) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.88 Safari/537.36"
 
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ command_exists(){
 }
 
 get_element(){
-    echo "${2}" | awk -v col="${1}" -F'|' '{gsub(/^[ \t]+|[ \t]+$/, "", $col); print $col}'
+    echo "${2}" | awk -v col="${1}" -F',' '{gsub(/^[ \t]+|[ \t]+$/, "", $col); print $col}'
 }
 
 check(){