Website Down Checker
Find out in seconds whether your website is down for everyone — or only for you — and what to do about it.
PingStuff runs this check from its own server, so an 'Online' result means your site answered a real request from outside your network, not from your browser's cache.
Enter your web address above and PingStuff tries to load it the way a visitor would: it resolves your domain, opens a connection, checks the certificate, and reads the HTTP response. If every step succeeds, your site is up for the wider internet — so if you still can't reach it, the problem is almost certainly local to your device, network, or internet provider.
If the check fails, PingStuff shows which step broke — DNS, the connection, the certificate, or the server's response — in plain English, so you know whether to call your host, your domain registrar, or your developer.
What to do next
- If PingStuff shows your site is up but you still can't reach it, try a different network (like mobile data), a private browsing window, or another device. A local DNS or cache problem is the usual culprit.
- If the site is down for everyone, open your hosting provider's status page and read the exact error PingStuff reported — a certificate or DNS failure points somewhere very different from a 500 error.
- Re-run the check after any fix to confirm the site recovered.
To catch the next outage before your visitors do, set up continuous monitoring with email alerts — SMS alerts are rolling out.
Frequently asked questions
Why does my website load for me but not for anyone else?
Usually your browser or router has an old version cached, or your ISP's DNS still points to a previous address. Because PingStuff checks from outside your network, its result reflects what real visitors see, not what your device has remembered.
The checker says my site is online, but I can't open it. What now?
That points to a problem on your side: a stale DNS cache, a browser extension, a VPN, or your ISP. Try mobile data or another device. If it loads there, your site is fine and the issue is local.
Does this check my site the same way a visitor would?
It makes a real HTTP request from PingStuff's server and follows redirects, just like a browser's first request. It does not run JavaScript or load images, so it confirms the server responds rather than testing every page asset.
How is this different from an ICMP 'ping'?
A traditional ping sends a low-level network packet, which many hosts block. PingStuff instead requests your actual website over HTTP, which is what matters for whether people can load your site.
How often can I run the free checker?
Several times an hour, with a small daily cap to keep the free tool fair; repeated checks of the same address within a short window return the just-completed result. For around-the-clock checks, PingStuff’s paid monitoring runs automatically and alerts you if something breaks.
Can PingStuff tell me why my site is down?
It reports exactly which stage failed — DNS, connection, certificate, or HTTP response — and explains it plainly. It won't guess at causes it can't observe, so a genuinely mixed or partial result is labelled uncertain rather than dressed up as a diagnosis.