Network & DNS

Is This Website Down

Paste a URL and see if it responds, the status code, and how long it took. Checked from Cloudflare, not your browser.

Results appear here.

What the result means

The check runs on Cloudflare's edge and reports only what that edge saw. Your browser, office network, or phone can get a different result, so up does not prove the site opens for you. A response in the 200 or 300 range is up. A response in the 400 range, including 404, means the host answered, so the site is not down. The page calls that a client error. A 500 range response is down. If nothing comes back, the result is inconclusive: the host may be offline, or it may be dropping connections from Cloudflare. A 403 is called out for the same reason. Redirects are followed. The page body is not returned. Private, loopback, and link-local addresses are refused before any connection.

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Questions

Does a 404 mean the site is down?

No. A 404 means the host answered and then said that particular URL is missing. The site itself responded, so this check calls it a client error rather than down. Down is reserved for server errors and for names that do not resolve.

Why might my site look up here but down for me?

This probe starts at Cloudflare, not on your machine. A local DNS cache, a hosts file, a firewall, or a network that blocks the site can stop you while the edge still gets an answer. The reverse is also common when a host blocks Cloudflare addresses.

Why is a timeout not called down?

A timeout has no HTTP status. The host might be offline, or it might be refusing the edge and still serving everyone else. The page leaves that case inconclusive instead of inventing an outage.