There must have been many times where some websites didn’t work on your browser. In such case the first thing you would do is to check whether the internet connection is working properly. If not your next guess would be whether the particular website is down.
So today I’m going to introduce you a very simple online tool to check whether a website is down. That tool is DownForEveryoneOrJustMe.com.
Even though the name sounds long it will easily find out whether a site is ‘Down for Everyone ’ or ‘Just Me’.
How to Use
This is an amazingly simple, single-paged website.
Here are some results I have got for couple of searches.
IsUp.me
This is the short URL for the website as most people find the original name hard to type. Still this URL will also be redirected to the same service.
How It Works
As I believe, this website is pinging the particular web server from a random IP address and checks whether it receives a response. Based on the response it will give us the result accordingly. However I don’t think it pings and gets the responses from multiple IP addresses therefore the reliability of the result you get will not be 100% accurate. So it is better to check the same site a couple of times to be quite sure.
Interesting Fact
As I mentioned earlier, DownForEveryoneOrJustMe.com and IsUp.me both will take you to the same website. One interesting fact I found when playing around with this tool is that, when I type ‘IsUp.me’ on DownForeveryoneOrJustMe.com, it says that the site is ‘Down for Everyone’. And the same happens when the vice versa is done with IsUp.me.
So, next time when you want to find out if a site is down or whether it’s blocked for you, make use of this tool to make things easier. Also I would like to invite you to share your ideas about this tool with us here at the NOG community.
Tags: #Performance #Web