Website Status Checker
Check whether a website is reachable and view response details.
Enter one or more URLs to run a live reachability check through a remote status service. Results can help separate a local connection issue from an HTTP error, timeout, redirect, or server-side outage.
You can enter full URLs or plain domains. Plain domains are checked using HTTPS.
Remote URL check: Each full URL is sent to a remote status service. Paths, query strings, fragments, and embedded credentials are included if present. Do not submit confidential, private, internal, credential-bearing, or other sensitive URLs.
Live server check
Send a server-side request to check whether a website responds from outside your local browser.
Response timing
Use response time as a quick signal for slow servers, overloaded hosting, timeouts, or network issues.
HTTP details
See whether a page is OK, redirected, forbidden, missing, rate-limited, or returning a server error.
How to use this website status checker
- 1. Enter one or more URLs.
Paste a full URL such as https://example.com, or enter a plain domain such as example.com. - 2. Run the check.
Click Check Status to send each full URL to the remote status-checking service. - 3. Review the result.
Look at the status code, message, and response time to understand what happened. - 4. Compare with your browser.
If the result looks unusual, open the site directly in your browser and test from another network if possible.
What the status result means
Reachable
The checker received a response from the website. This usually means the domain and server are reachable.
Redirected
The URL points somewhere else. This can be normal, especially for HTTP to HTTPS or non-www to www redirects.
Client error
The server responded, but the specific URL may be forbidden, missing, rate-limited, or require authentication.
Server error
The server returned a 5xx error, which often means the site, hosting, app, proxy, or gateway has a problem.
Timeout or unreachable
The checker could not get a response in time. This may indicate DNS, network, firewall, or server availability issues.
Common HTTP status codes
HTTP status codes help explain how the server responded to the request. A reachable server can still return an error for a specific page.
Why a website may look down
- Server outage or overloaded hosting
- DNS configuration issue
- Expired or misconfigured SSL/TLS certificate
- Firewall, CDN, or bot-protection rule
- Regional blocking or network filtering
- Rate limiting after too many requests
- Incorrect URL, typo, or missing page
- Temporary deployment or maintenance problem
Down, blocked, or just redirected?
A website can be reachable even when a specific URL returns a warning or error. For example, a 403 response may mean the server blocked the automated checker rather than the site being offline.
Redirects are also common. A site may redirect from HTTP to HTTPS, from a non-www domain to a www domain, or from an old URL to a new page.
For important outages, compare this result with your browser, another device, another network, and your hosting provider or uptime monitor.
Limitations of automated status checks
A single check cannot prove that every visitor in every country can access the website. Network routes, DNS resolvers, and regional restrictions can vary.
Some websites intentionally block server-side or automated requests. A blocked check may still mean the website works in a normal browser.
Dynamic websites may return different responses depending on cookies, login state, headers, location, or bot-protection rules.
For production monitoring, use this tool as a quick manual check alongside logs, hosting dashboards, and a dedicated uptime monitor.
Privacy and safe URL checking
The remote service receives the full normalized URL after an HTTPS scheme is added to plain domains. That can include paths, query strings, fragments, usernames, passwords, access tokens, API keys, session IDs, or other sensitive values. Only check public URLs that you are comfortable sending to a remote service. This page does not make a promise about remote logging, caching, or retention.
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