Is the site up, and how often is it down?
Each check gets one of six labels. Choose a status below to see what it means and what somebody visiting your site may notice.
What the six statuses mean
Every check ends with one of these labels. Choose one to see what happened and whether visitors are likely to notice a problem.
Site is up
Your site returned a normal page within the time limit. Visitors should be able to use it as usual.
Site is down
Your server returned an error or would not accept the connection. Visitors may be seeing an error page.
Timed out
No reply in 10 seconds. We retry before alerting.
SSL issue
Your SSL certificate has expired, is not trusted, or cannot be checked properly. Browsers may warn visitors not to continue.
DNS issue
WebWatch could not find the server address for your domain. A DNS setting may be wrong, or the domain may have expired.
Rate limited
Your server or a traffic protection service refused the check because it received too many requests.
What an uptime percentage really means
If 99 out of 100 checks come back UP, your uptime is 99%. WebWatch shows this over the last 48 hours for every saved site. Over a full day, 99% allows about 14 minutes and 24 seconds of downtime. For a business site, that can mean missed enquiries or sales. Many important sites aim for at least 99.9%.
Our demo status page shows current results and recent incidents for several websites. For help with a site that is available but slow, read the performance guide.