Is Facebook down?
facebook.com · Social media · official status page
Facebook has recorded 100.0% uptime over the last 5 days, with no outage. It answers our checks in 659 ms on average.
No problems detected
Facebook answered our last automated check normally, 13 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.
Facebook 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 Facebook 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.facebook.com/ 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 Facebook?
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 Facebook outages
Facebook is the flagship product of Meta Platforms and one of a handful of sites large enough that an outage becomes news within minutes. Because Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp share Meta's backbone, authentication layer and content delivery network, a fault in one often surfaces in all four at once - Which is why a Facebook outage and an Instagram outage so frequently start in the same ten-minute window.
Failures rarely look like a blank page. The common patterns are a feed that never finishes loading, a login loop that returns you to the sign-in screen, images that stay grey, or Marketplace and Groups timing out while the rest of the app works. The October 2021 outage remains the reference case: A withdrawn BGP route removed Meta's DNS servers from the public internet for almost six hours, taking down every Meta property simultaneously and locking staff out of internal tools. Meta publishes platform-level incidents at metastatus.com, but that page is aimed at developers and often lags what users see.
What to do if Facebook is not working for you
Is it them or you?
Our last check reached facebook.com 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
Check a second product from the same company. If Instagram and Facebook fail together the problem is the shared platform, not the app you happened to open.
How social media services typically fail
The app opens, your profile loads, and the feed spins forever. Posting fails silently or queues. Direct messages frequently keep working for a while after the feed has stopped, which is the clearest sign that the platform is partly up rather than down. The rest of the steps, and why this category breaks the way it does, are on our social media status page, with more background in why websites go down.
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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An SVG that always shows Facebook’s current state, updated from our checks. Works in a README, a status dashboard or a footer.
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Facebook measured against its peers
How it compares with other social media services
Over the last 30 days Facebook ranks 1 of 7 social media services we monitor, measured on recorded uptime. The category averages 100.0%, and Facebook sits at 100.0%. That is the best record in the group.
On speed, Facebook answers our checks in about 659 ms against a category average of 445 ms - Slower than its peers. Response time is not availability, but a service drifting well above its own normal is often the first sign of trouble.
What the last 24 checks looked like
Across the most recent 24 checks, the quickest response was 95 ms and the slowest 1306 ms, against a 30-day average of 659 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 social media service is listed on the category page.
The server that answered Mostly hidden
- IP address
- 57.144.180.1 and 1 other
- Server
- Hidden until you sign in
- Powered by
- Hidden until you sign in
- Content type
- Hidden until you sign in
- Declared size
- Hidden until you sign in
- Transport and HSTS
- Hidden until you sign in
Five more fields about the server behind facebook.com.
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 facebook.com, not requested when you opened this page.
Certificate Mostly hidden
- Status
- Expires in 7 days
- Issued to
- Hidden until you sign in
- Issued by
- Hidden until you sign in
- Valid from
- Hidden until you sign in
- Expires
- Hidden until you sign in
- Protocol and cipher
- Hidden until you sign in
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.
Facebook status: Common questions
Is Facebook down right now?
Facebook 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 Facebook 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 Facebook?
Facebook has been reachable for 100.0% of the last 5 days we have measured, with 0 seconds of recorded downtime.
Does Facebook have an official status page?
Yes - Facebook publishes one at https://metastatus.com/. It is the authoritative source for confirmed incidents, though official pages usually update after user reports have already peaked.
Facebook 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.