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Website Status & Uptime Checker

Test whether any website is online or down. Measure server response time, inspect HTTP response codes, trace redirect chains, and verify secure HTTPS headers.

Quick Definition

A website status checker initiates an external HTTP/HTTPS probe to determine if a web server is currently reachable, measure response latency (TTFB) in milliseconds, inspect HTTP status codes (such as 200 OK, 404, or 500), and trace multi-hop redirect chains.

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HTTP & UPTIME GUIDE

Understanding HTTP Status Codes and Server Performance

The technical anatomy of HTTP web requests, status categories, and latency benchmarks.

HTTP Status Code Reference Categories

When a browser or automated bot requests a URL, the web server replies with a standardized three-digit HTTP status code. These codes are partitioned into five standardized ranges:

  • 1xx (Informational): Request received and process continuing (e.g., 101 Switching Protocols for WebSockets).
  • 2xx (Success): Action was successfully received, understood, and accepted (e.g., 200 OK, 201 Created, 204 No Content).
  • 3xx (Redirection): Further action must be taken to complete the request (e.g., 301 Moved Permanently, 302 Found, 304 Not Modified).
  • 4xx (Client Error): Request contains bad syntax or cannot be fulfilled (e.g., 401 Unauthorized, 403 Forbidden, 404 Not Found, 429 Too Many Requests).
  • 5xx (Server Error): Server failed to fulfill an apparently valid request (e.g., 500 Internal Server Error, 502 Bad Gateway, 503 Service Unavailable, 504 Gateway Timeout).

Decoding 502 Bad Gateway vs. 504 Gateway Timeout

Two of the most frequent outage codes in modern reverse-proxy architectures (Nginx, Cloudflare, AWS ALB) are 502 and 504:

502 Bad Gateway: The edge reverse proxy connected to the backend application server (Node.js, Python, PHP-FPM), but the backend process immediately returned an invalid response or dropped the TCP connection unexpectedly (e.g. application crash or OOM).

504 Gateway Timeout: The reverse proxy reached out to the upstream application, but the application was so bogged down by database locks or high CPU that it failed to finish responding before the proxy timeout (typically 60s) elapsed.

One-Time Manual Checks vs. Continuous 24/7 Monitoring

While this manual checker is great for quick troubleshooting when a colleague asks โ€œIs the site down for you too?โ€, production web applications require proactive monitoring:

  1. Instant Incident Detection: Automated monitoring pings your server from multiple global vantage points every 60 seconds.
  2. Escalation & On-Call: Alerts are delivered to the right engineer before users even submit support tickets.
  3. Historical SLA & Performance Trends: Track latency degradation over weeks to catch memory leaks or slow database queries before they become outages.
COMMON QUESTIONS

Frequently Asked Questions: Website Status & Uptime

Common questions on response codes, server health, and continuous uptime monitoring.

What does an HTTP 200 OK status code mean?

HTTP 200 OK indicates that the client request was successfully received, understood, and processed by the server, and the requested web page or payload has been returned.

What is the difference between a 301 and a 302 redirect?

A 301 Moved Permanently status signifies that the requested resource has been permanently relocated to a new URL, instructing search engines to transfer link equity and browsers to cache the new destination. A 302 Found (or 307 Temporary Redirect) indicates a temporary shift, meaning search engines should retain the original URL in search indices.

What is the difference between a 4xx and a 5xx error code?

4xx status codes (such as 400 Bad Request, 401 Unauthorized, 403 Forbidden, and 404 Not Found) denote client-side errors, meaning the request was invalid or lacked permissions. 5xx status codes (like 500 Internal Server Error, 502 Bad Gateway, 503 Service Unavailable, and 504 Gateway Timeout) denote server-side failures, meaning the server crashed, timed out, or could not reach an upstream application process.

What is considered a fast website response time?

Under Google Core Web Vitals guidelines, a server response time (Time to First Byte / TTFB) of under 200ms to 300ms is considered excellent. Response times between 300ms and 800ms are acceptable, while anything above 800ms typically leads to noticeable page load delays and higher bounce rates.

Why can long redirect chains harm SEO and user experience?

Every redirect hop adds DNS lookup, TCP handshake, TLS negotiation, and HTTP round-trip latency. A chain of 3 to 4 redirects can easily add 500ms to 1000ms of delay on mobile connections. Furthermore, search engine crawlers may abandon crawling a URL if a redirect chain exceeds 5 hops.

How does continuous 24/7 uptime monitoring in Uzvera work?

While this web tool provides on-demand single checks, Uzvera's commercial monitoring service continuously pings your websites and API endpoints at regular intervals (e.g. every 60 seconds). If your server goes down, responds with a 5xx error, or exceeds your latency threshold, alerts are dispatched immediately via email, Slack webhooks, and push notifications.