Free website status checker
Check a public website from outside your network. See whether Europe and the United States can reach it, how quickly it answers, and whether its certificate is valid.
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Run continuous uptime checks instead of a one-time website status test. See its first check free, then try a paid plan for 7 days (card required) or subscribe now.
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Use a public website or domain. You do not need an account to run a check.
Read the evidence
The result shows what this check measured. Use the details to decide what to investigate next.
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How to check website status from outside your network.
A website status checker tests a site from outside your own browser, Wi-Fi, VPN, and office network. Visual Sentinel requests the page from available check locations, follows redirects, measures response time, checks whether the page answers normally, times DNS resolution, and validates the SSL certificate when the site uses HTTPS. If every region fails, investigate the origin server, CDN, DNS path, hosting provider, or firewall. If the checker says the website is up but it fails for you, compare from mobile data or another network to isolate local DNS, ISP, cache, VPN, or access-control issues.
Is this site down for everyone or just me?
- All regions down: investigate origin, DNS, CDN, hosting, or firewall rules.
- One region down: suspect regional routing, CDN edge, DNS propagation, or geoblocking.
- Checker up, browser down: clear cache, change DNS, test mobile data, or review local network policy.
reading the result
What the website response is telling you.
The server responded successfully. This does not prove the page looks or works correctly. If users still report problems, inspect the rendered page, scripts, CDN, DNS, and their network.
Normal when a website forwards visitors to its preferred address. Several forwards can slow a visit; keep the route short.
Often a firewall or bot rule blocking the checker, not a real outage. Whitelist known monitor IPs to keep checks honest. Full guide →
The server is up but the path is wrong or the content moved. Check the URL and your redirect rules.
Application code or configuration crashed while handling the request. Check the application error logs first.
Inspect gateway and upstream logs, service health and connection settings. The status alone does not prove the origin is offline. Full guide →
The service cannot handle the request, often during overload or maintenance. Check the responding service, host metrics and any Retry-After guidance.
A gateway did not receive a timely upstream response. Inspect timeout settings, service logs and upstream dependencies; the code does not prove a connection was accepted. Full guide →
faq
Website status checker questions, answered.
What is a website status checker?
A website status checker requests a page from outside your network. Visual Sentinel reports whether the page answered normally, response time, certificate validity, address lookup time and results from the available check locations. It follows redirects but does not display the redirect chain. A successful page response does not prove that the page looks right or a transaction works.
How do I check website status?
Type the domain or URL into the checker at the top of this page and choose Check now. Visual Sentinel requests the page from its available check regions and reports whether the page answered normally, response time, certificate validity and address lookup time. If the regions reach the site but your browser cannot, the problem is likely on your network. If no region reaches it either, the site is likely down for everyone, not just you.
Is my website down right now?
Enter your URL in the checker above. Visual Sentinel requests the page from available check locations and reports whether it answered normally, response time, certificate validity and address lookup time. If every checked region fails while your browser works, compare another network and inspect access logs. A regional, cached or firewall-limited result is possible; the test alone cannot establish the cause.
How do you check if a website is down or just unreachable from me?
Use a checker that runs outside your local network and compare the result with your browser, mobile data, or another connection. If Visual Sentinel reports the site is up from its check regions but it fails for you, the issue is usually local DNS, ISP routing, browser cache, or a firewall rule. If every checker region also fails, the site, origin server, CDN, or DNS path likely needs investigation.
What does partially reachable mean?
Partially reachable means at least one Visual Sentinel check region can reach the site and at least one region cannot. That usually points to regional DNS propagation, CDN edge trouble, ISP routing, firewall geoblocking, or a hosting issue affecting only part of the internet.
Is the website status checker really free?
Yes. The on-demand website status checker is free and does not require an account, email address, or API key. Fair-use rate limits protect the service from abuse. The checker is funded by Visual Sentinel’s paid monitoring plans, which monitor sites continuously instead of only when you run a manual check.
What do the different website results mean?
A normal answer means the page responded, not that every feature works. A forwarded address means the website sent the request elsewhere. Access refused means the server blocked the request. Page not found means that address has no page. A server error means the website could not complete the request. No response means the connection failed or took too long. Use the result and website logs together to investigate.
Why does my site load for me but the checker shows it is down?
Three common causes: a CDN cache served the page to your browser while the origin is down, your browser has an active session cookie that bypasses access control, or the site blocks the checker through a firewall, bot rule, or geoblocking policy. Try an incognito window from mobile data and review CDN or firewall logs to reproduce what the checker sees.
How do I monitor a website continuously instead of checking on demand?
Sign up for a Visual Sentinel account and add the site: its first check runs with no card. To keep monitoring, start a 7-day trial of a paid plan (card required) or subscribe now. Solo and Starter allow 5-minute uptime checks; Business and Agency allow 1-minute checks. Additional notification channels depend on the plan, and confirmation or alert-delay settings can add time before a message is sent.
Does the checker also test SSL certificates and DNS?
An HTTPS website check reports certificate validity, issuer, and days remaining, plus DNS lookup timing for the request. To see whether a DNS record has propagated, use the DNS propagation checker at /tools/dns-checker, which compares public resolvers with the authoritative nameserver. For certificate expiry, chain, hostname and TLS version details, use the SSL checker at /tools/ssl-checker.
Can I check my website from Australia, India, the UK, or Europe?
The checker reports results from the currently enabled EU and US check regions, so you can compare an external result with your own local connection in Australia, India, the UK, Europe, or elsewhere. A regional mismatch can reveal DNS, CDN, ISP, firewall, or geoblocking differences; it is not by itself proof of a global outage.
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