Down for everyone, or just you?
When a page will not open, there are two possibilities. Either the site is broken for everybody, or something between you and the site is broken. Waiting out the first kind costs nothing. The second kind you can usually fix in a few minutes. Telling them apart is the whole point of this page.
Our checker sends a request to the address you enter from a server in a data center, far from your home network. If that server gets an answer, the site is running. If it gets a server error, a timeout or no connection at all, the site has a problem of its own and the best thing you can do is wait and watch the official status page.
What the result tells you
You get the HTTP status code, the time it took to receive the first answer and the address the request ended up at after redirects. A code in the 200 or 300 range is normal. Codes such as 403 or 404 mean the server answered but refuses that visitor or that page, so the site is reachable. Codes from 500 up, such as 502 or 503, point to a failure on the server side. Our status code guide explains each one.
One caution: we test from a single location. Some outages are regional, and some sites block data centers entirely. Treat a green result as strong evidence, not as proof that your own connection is fine.
Games, apps and streaming services
People mostly arrive during an outage of a big service. For 72 popular ones we run a background check every few minutes, show the result on a page of its own and collect problem reports from visitors, with a chart of the last 24 hours. Each page also links the official status page and support, and lists fixes that are specific to that service, for example how to clear the Discord cache or change a voice region. Start with Discord, YouTube, Steam or ChatGPT, or open the full list.
If the site is up but you cannot open it
Try the address on your phone with Wi-Fi off. If it loads on mobile data, the problem sits in your home network or computer. Turn off any VPN, flush your DNS cache, and try another browser. The guide why a website is not loading lists these steps in a sensible order.
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