Find out instantly if a website is offline for everyone or just acting up on your end using a reliable website status checker.

Type a URL and hit enter.

Nothing loads. The tab spins for ten seconds before a DNS error pops up.

You sit there wondering if your internet dropped, if your router needs a restart, or if the entire service just crashed.

Instead of guessing, use a website status checker. It tells you in two seconds whether a site is actually dead or if the problem lives on your device.

Why sites go down

Servers drop offline for all kinds of reasons. Traffic spikes overwhelm databases during a flash sale. Bad code deploys break routing tables. Hosting providers experience sudden hardware failures or DDoS attacks.

When that happens, your browser requests the page, but the origin server doesn't respond.

The local problem trap

Most of the time, the website is fine. You are the one stuck in a broken loop.

Bad local DNS caches, expired browser cookies, or strict VPN tunnels block connections. Your laptop thinks a site is down because it cannot resolve the IP address anymore.

A status checker bypasses your local network entirely. It sends a direct HTTP request from an external server to the target domain. If that external server gets a 200 OK response, the site is online. If it times out, the service is down globally.

How to test a site right now

Open our Website Status Checker tool. Paste the URL into the input field. Click check.

You'll see an immediate HTTP status code.

• 200 OK: The site is working. Clear your browser cache or turn off your VPN.
• 500 Internal Server Error: The remote server crashed. Wait for their engineering team to fix it.
• 502 Bad Gateway: The proxy server received an invalid response.

Stop wasting time restarting your router for server-side outages. Check the status first.