Website Health
Is Your Website Down?
Check whether your website is online, reachable and returning the expected HTTP response.
Problem: Your customers cannot access your website.
We request your URL from our server and report the exact HTTP status, redirect chain and response time. That distinguishes a real outage from a local network or browser cache problem.
What we'll check
- DNS resolution of the hostname
- HTTP and HTTPS reachability
- Final status code after redirects
- Redirect chain and loop detection
- Server response time
Down for everyone, or just for you?
This check runs from our infrastructure, not your device. If we get a 200 response and you don't, the fault is local: DNS cache, ISP routing, VPN, firewall or browser cache.
What the status code tells you
- 200 — the server answered normally.
- 301 / 302 — a redirect. Check that the destination is the URL you expect.
- 403 — the server is up but refusing the request, often a firewall or bot rule.
- 404 — the host works but that path does not exist.
- 500 / 502 / 503 / 504 — application or upstream failure. 502 and 504 usually point at PHP, Node or the origin behind a proxy.
- No response — DNS failure, expired domain, dead server or a blocked port.
Common causes of downtime
- Expired domain registration or nameservers pointing nowhere.
- Expired SSL certificate causing browsers to refuse the connection.
- Hosting resource limits hit during a traffic spike.
- A failed plugin, theme or deployment.
- DNS changes still propagating after a migration.
What to do next
- Confirm the domain has not expired at your registrar.
- Check your hosting provider's status page.
- Run the DNS checker to confirm the A record points at your server.
- Run the SSL checker if the browser shows a security warning instead of a page.
Frequently asked questions
- Why does my site load for me but show as down here?
- Your browser or DNS resolver may be serving a cached version. A check from an external network is the more reliable signal.
- How often can I run the check?
- As often as you need within the rate limit. The tool is not a monitoring service — it reports a single point in time.
- Does a 403 mean my site is down?
- No. The server is running but declined the request, usually because a security rule blocked an unfamiliar client.