How to check website status and availability

Everyone is sometimes unable to get to a particular website, and you don't even know whether it's just your internet connection, or DNS problems on the side of your ISP (internet provider), or something else gone wrong.

So what can help you to diagnose the problem, verify web site status and find out whether a website is down for everyone or just for you?

If you can access other websites, just go to downforeveryone.com and in most cases our http site status checking tool will tell you whether it's just your connection to the site or there is a general problem with the site availability at the moment.

 

 

 

How to check a website status?

However, there are some websites that could block our availability requests or in some other ways make it impossible to check their current status. In case our site status checking app tells you that a given website is currently down, but you are still willing to be completely sure about it or just trying to find out what's wrong with the site you cannot access, there are some futher tips and tricks on how to diagnose possible problems with the website's inaccessibility:

1. Checking site status with Twitter

   If the website you're trying to access is of a decent popularity, you might be not the only one who's got the problem. There may be other people complaining about the availablility of this website on Twitter. You can try to search for their tweets by entering the query "sitename down" in Twitter search form, or just by typing this URL in the address bar of your web browser:
   
   http://twitter.com/#search?q=sitename down
   
   

2. Tools to check website status

   However, if the website you're unable to access isn't big and popular enough for checking its status via Twitter, you'll have to use more sophisticated methods to check out its availablilty for everyone else than you. The first and the easiest option to do it is the 'ping' tool that will help you to know if the host name is resolving. The 'ping' tool is a part of your OS and using it is very simple. Just open the 'Run' command with your computer or device and enter as follows:
   
   ping sitename.com
   
   or
   
   ping www.sitename.com

   Ping is a network utility used to test the reachability of a host on an IP network along with the connection between two network points by sending simple packets to a host (website) and then reporting the time it takes to get a response. If your ping request to a website's domain name measures the time from transmission to reception then the website you're "pinging" is okay.

 

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