Website Down Checker
Wondering whether a site has crashed, or if it is only your connection acting up? Drop in any link — we will ping it live from our own server and report back what happened: did it answer, what code it sent, how long it took, and where it bounced you.
How the checker works
From your question to a clear-cut answer in four moves.
You enter a website.
Paste a domain like example.com, or any link copied straight from your browser's address bar.
We send a live request.
Our server visits the address exactly like a browser does, then waits up to eight seconds for a reply.
We follow redirects.
If the address forwards us elsewhere, we trail it for up to four jumps and log each one.
You see the result.
You get the full picture: response or silence, status code, reply speed, the redirect trail, and the precise check time.
What the result means
Each probe closes with one of these four calls.
The site replied to our probe. Note: pages that shoo away bots with a 401 or 403 are still alive behind the scenes — we mark those as responding as well.
Silence beyond eight seconds, a 5xx breakdown, or a 429 slow-down notice. The site could genuinely be offline — or it might just be swatting automated visitors away for the moment.
The link handed us off to a different address. You will see the final destination along with the complete hop-by-hop trail.
It kept tossing us from one address to the next, so we called it quits after four hops — much like your browser does when it flashes "too many redirects".
HTTP status codes you may see
Decode the digits your result throws at you.
The page came back fine.
Bots got turned away at the door, but the server itself is awake.
The server is alive — that particular page just is not there.
The address has shifted, and the site pointed us to its new home.
We are being asked to slow down — the site is throttling traffic right now.
Something broke on the site's own servers or gateway.
The request timed out, the domain did not resolve, or the security certificate failed.
Is it down or just you?
Because the probe leaves from our machines rather than yours, the verdict points you toward the real culprit.
The site is up.
Odds are the snag sits somewhere on your side of the connection:
It is probably down for everyone.
…unless the site is simply stonewalling automated probes at the moment. Two sensible next moves:
- Give it a few minutes, then probe it once more.
- A brand's official social accounts are typically where outages get acknowledged first.
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