Free Website Status Checker
Check whether any website is up or down in seconds — with its HTTP status code, response time, and full redirect chain. Then get free alerts the moment it goes down.
Free · no sign-up · sends a live request from our servers.
What you get
What this website status checker tells you
Enter a URL and Uptura sends it a live request, then reports exactly what happened — not just up or down.
Up or down
A clear verdict on whether the site is reachable right now — and if it's down, whether it's a server error, a timeout, or a DNS failure.
HTTP status code
The exact status code the server returns — 200, 301, 403, 500, and so on — so you can see precisely how it responded, not just up or down.
Response time
How many milliseconds the server took to respond, measured from our end, so you can spot a site that's technically up but painfully slow.
Redirect chain
Every redirect followed to reach the final page — each hop with its status code — so you can check a site's redirection is set up the way you intend.
Why it matters
Why a status check is only half the job
A quick check tells you where a site stands this second — but the outage you actually need to catch is the one nobody's watching for.
"Up" isn't always up
A server can return a 200 while quietly serving an error page, or sit behind a redirect loop. Checking the actual status code and redirect chain tells you what's really happening.
Downtime is expensive and quiet
When a site goes down, the first sign is usually an angry customer — long after it started. A quick check confirms it; continuous monitoring catches it first.
A check is a snapshot
This tells you the site's status this second. The real question is whether it's up at 3am on a Sunday — which is what monitoring is for.
From checker to monitor
Turn a one-time check into continuous uptime monitoring
The checker tells you a site's status right now. Uptura's free uptime monitoring runs this check around the clock and alerts you the instant one goes down.
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Add your URLs
Point Uptura at the sites and endpoints you need online. Free during our public beta — no credit card.
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We check on a schedule
Uptura runs this same check around the clock, tracking status, response time, and redirects — and you can require a keyword or specific status code so a broken 200 still counts as down.
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You get alerted the moment it's down
The instant a check fails — confirmed across consecutive checks to avoid false alarms — we notify your team over email, Slack, or Discord, and again when it recovers.
Free during our public beta, no credit card required. Prefer to read more first? See how uptime monitoring works.
FAQ
Website status, answered
How do I check if a website is down?
Enter the URL above and Uptura sends a live request to it and reports whether it's up or down, the exact HTTP status code, the response time, and any redirects it followed. If the site doesn't respond — a timeout, connection refused, or DNS failure — it's reported as down with the reason, so you can tell whether it's down for everyone or just a problem on your end.
What does the HTTP status code mean?
The status code is how a server describes its response. 2xx (like 200) means success; 3xx (like 301) is a redirect; 4xx (like 403 or 404) means the request was refused or not found — the server is still up; and 5xx (like 500 or 503) means the server itself failed. This checker shows the exact code so you can see precisely how a site responded.
How do I check a website's redirects?
This tool follows the full redirect chain and lists every hop — each URL and its status code — until it reaches the final page. It's the quickest way to check a website's redirection is set up correctly: that http redirects to https, a bare domain redirects to www (or vice versa), and there are no redirect loops or unexpected detours.
What is uptime?
Uptime is the percentage of time a website or service is online and responding correctly. A one-time status check tells you whether a site is up right now; uptime is that same check run continuously over time, expressed as a percentage — for example 99.9% uptime allows roughly 43 minutes of downtime a month.
Is this website status checker free?
Yes — the status checker is completely free and needs no sign-up. Check as many URLs as you like. If you'd rather not keep re-checking by hand, you can set up free automated uptime monitoring during our public beta and get alerted the moment a site goes down.
Can I get alerted when my website goes down?
Yes. A manual check only tells you the status right now — the real risk is an outage at 3am when no one's looking. Add your sites to Uptura and it checks them on a schedule, alerting you over email, Slack, or Discord the moment one goes down, and again when it recovers — free during our public beta.
Never be the last to know your site is down
Add your URLs and let Uptura watch them around the clock — free during our public beta, no credit card required.
Free during beta · no credit card required