Is BBC down?
bbc.co.uk · News & media
BBC has recorded 100.0% uptime over the last 5 days, with no outage. It answers our checks in 230 ms on average.
No problems detected
BBC answered our last automated check normally, 12 minutes ago. If it is not working for you, the problem is most likely local - Your connection, your DNS resolver, a cached page, or an extension.
BBC problem reports in the last 24 hours
Counted in 15-minute buckets from reports submitted on this site. This is a user signal - A tall bar means people are complaining, not that our check failed.
No reports in the last 24 hours.
If BBC is not working for you, tell us and the chart starts here.
Response time from our automated checks
The last 24 checks of https://www.bbc.co.uk/ from our network. Bar height is the response time; the tallest bar is the slowest.
- Answered normally
- Slow to answer
- No usable answer
Having a problem with BBC?
Tell us what is not working. Reports go straight onto the 24-hour chart above and help other people see a problem before any company admits to one. 0 reports in the last 24 hours.
About BBC outages
The BBC runs several large services under one domain, and they fail separately. News is a heavily cached read-mostly site; iPlayer is a streaming platform with rights-based geographic restrictions; Sounds is live and on-demand radio; Bitesize is education.
iPlayer is the component that generates most reports, and a large share of those are not outages but geo-restriction - The service is UK-only and a VPN or a mis-located IP address produces an error that looks identical to downtime. Sign-in with a BBC account is a shared component across all of them. Live event streaming, particularly major sport, produces the sharpest load spikes and the most genuine degradation. The BBC does not publish a general status page, though it maintains a help page listing known issues for iPlayer specifically.
What to do if BBC is not working for you
Is it them or you?
Our last check reached bbc.co.uk normally, from a different network, resolver and route than yours. If it is broken for you, the fault is most likely local or too narrow for a single probe to see. Run the check again now to confirm.
The first thing worth trying
Use reader mode. It bypasses most of the machinery that actually failed, and the article itself is usually being served perfectly.
How news & media services typically fail
The page half-loads: Text appears and the layout never settles, or the article renders and the live blog does not update. Cached versions work while anything personalised fails. The rest of the steps, and why this category breaks the way it does, are on our news & media status page, with more background in what a 504 gateway timeout means.
The link below unfurls into a live card showing the verdict, so whoever you send it to sees the evidence rather than your word for it.
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BBC measured against its peers
What the last 24 checks looked like
Across the most recent 24 checks, the quickest response was 83 ms and the slowest 385 ms, against a 30-day average of 230 ms. The chart above plots each one, so a widening spread is visible before it becomes an outage.
All figures are our own measurements, taken every 20 minutes from one network. What that can and cannot see is set out in the methodology, and every news & media service is listed on the category page.
The server that answered Mostly hidden
- IP address
- 199.232.88.81
- Server
- Hidden until you sign in
- Powered by
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- Content type
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- Declared size
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- Transport and HSTS
- Hidden until you sign in
Five more fields about the server behind bbc.co.uk.
Free, one click with Google, and nothing is posted or shared. We ask because the lookups behind this cost us real requests to other people’s servers.
Read from our last sweep of bbc.co.uk, not requested when you opened this page.
Certificate Mostly hidden
- Status
- Valid
- Issued to
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- Issued by
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- Valid from
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- Expires
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- Protocol and cipher
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Who issued it, what it covers and exactly when it expires.
Free, one click with Google, and nothing is posted or shared. We ask because the lookups behind this cost us real requests to other people’s servers.
An expired certificate stops browsers loading a site entirely while the server itself stays perfectly healthy, which is why we track it beside the uptime figure. Check it yourself.
BBC status: Common questions
Is BBC down right now?
BBC is up and responding normally. This page is refreshed by an automated check that runs every 20 minutes from an independent network, and by reports from visitors.
Why can I not reach BBC when you say it is up?
Because an outage can be partial. Our check runs from one network and asks for one page. Your problem may be regional, may affect only the mobile app, or may be local to your connection, DNS resolver or browser cache.
How reliable is BBC?
BBC has been reachable for 100.0% of the last 5 days we have measured, with 0 seconds of recorded downtime.
Does BBC have an official status page?
BBC does not publish a public status page, which is why independent monitoring and user reports are the only external signal available during an incident.
BBC discussion
Useful comments say what broke, roughly where you are and roughly when it started - That is what turns a pile of complaints into something other people can act on. Links are shown as plain text and carry no SEO value, so there is nothing here worth spamming.