Is My Website Down Right Now?
Check if any website is down — for everyone, or just you. Runs a live probe from your browser in under 5 seconds. No sign-up, no tracking, no server — a free alternative to IsItDownRightNow and DownForEveryoneOrJustMe.
Is My Website Down Right Now? Here's How to Find Out in 5 Seconds
When a website stops loading, the first question is always the same: is it down for everyone, or just for me? This free "is my website down" checker answers in under 5 seconds. Type any URL — yours, a SaaS vendor, or a social network — and the tool fires four independent probes from inside your browser: a Cloudflare DNS-over-HTTPS lookup, an HTTP reachability test, a favicon image probe, and a Resource Timing measurement. Combined, they produce a clear verdict of UP, DEGRADED, or DOWN. No account, no email, no server log — your check is private and instant.
Free Alternative to IsItDownRightNow, DownForEveryoneOrJustMe, and DownDetector
Most "is the website down" checkers route your query through their own backend, which means they see which sites you test and when. This tool does the opposite: all probes originate from your browser, using public Cloudflare DNS and direct no-cors fetches. No telemetry leaves your device. That matters when you are checking a confidential vendor URL, a staging site, or an internal tool. It also means you can install zero browser extensions — just bookmark this page and click Check Now.
Quick comparison
| Feature | This tool | IsItDownRightNow | UptimeRobot |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sign-up required | No | No | Yes |
| Check from your network | Yes | No — their server | No — their server |
| DNS + server IP + response time | Yes | Partial | Yes |
| Continuous 24/7 monitoring | No | No | Yes |
| Status badge for README | Yes (free) | No | Paid |
| Data stays in browser | Yes | No | No |
What Does "Is My Website Down" Actually Check?
This website down checker runs four independent probes from inside your browser so you get a clear answer in under 5 seconds. It checks DNS resolution (does the domain point to an IP?), HTTP reachability (does the server respond at all?), a favicon image probe (does it return valid image bytes?), and a response-time measurement using the Resource Timing API. If three of the four probes succeed, the site is marked UP. If DNS fails, it is marked DOWN. If HTTP responds but favicon fails, it is marked DEGRADED — typically a sign of partial outage or geo-blocking.
Why Your Browser Probe Matters
Tools like UptimeRobot and CheckUpTime poll from their own servers. That tells you if the site is up from their datacenter — not from your ISP. When the answer you want is "is it down for me, right now, from this network?", a browser-side probe is the right answer. If the tool reports UP but you still cannot reach the site, the problem is local (DNS cache, captive portal, ISP routing). If the tool reports DOWN, the outage is real and global.
Limits of Client-Side Checking
CORS policy prevents browsers from reading full HTTP responses from other domains. We work around this with a no-cors fetch (which tells us the request completed without revealing content) plus a favicon image probe (which bypasses CORS entirely). This means we cannot report the exact HTTP status code — a 500 error may look indistinguishable from a 200 OK. For full HTTP status checking, use our HTTP Headers Viewer.
How to Interpret the Results
- UP with fast response time — Everything normal.
- UP but slow (>3000 ms) — Server reachable but under load or far from your region.
- DEGRADED — Server responds but favicon or content probe fails. Partial outage.
- DOWN (DNS fails) — Domain does not resolve. Likely DNS propagation issue or domain expired.
- DOWN (no HTTP response) — DNS works but server refuses or times out. Real outage.
Privacy and Data Handling
Your URL never touches a Teamz Lab server. DNS queries go to Cloudflare's public DNS-over-HTTPS resolver. HTTP probes go directly from your browser to the target site. Recent checks are kept in your browser's local storage only — clear them any time by clearing site data for tool.teamzlab.com. We never see which sites you check.