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Is The Guardian down?
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The Guardian has recorded 100.0% uptime over the last 2 days, with no outage. It answers our checks in 123 ms on average.
No problems detected
The Guardian answered our last automated check normally, 11 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.
Last checked
98 ms
· HTTP 200
Uptime, 30 days
100.0%
0 seconds down
Reports, 24h
0
baseline still forming
Recorded outages
0
full history
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The Guardian problem reports in the last 24 hours
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Response time from our automated checks
The last 24 checks of https://www.theguardian.com/us from our network. Bar height is the response time; the tallest bar is the slowest.
16 Oct 2026, 20:47 UTC
slowest 193 ms
17 Oct 2026, 04:27 UTC
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About The Guardian outages
The Guardian sits at number 195 on the worldwide traffic ranking with about 26M organic visits a month, and the address it resolves to belongs to Fastly, Inc. The Guardian publishes 8 addresses for the name, reachable over IPv6 as well as IPv4.
Name service for theguardian.com is operated by NS1, with the registration held through GoDaddy.com, LLC, and dated to 1994. Theguardian.com sends an HSTS header, so browsers refuse it over plain HTTP. Mail for theguardian.com is handled by Google Workspace. The certificate theguardian.com presented to us was issued by GlobalSign nv-sa, covering 33 names, with 140 days left on it at first check, and negotiated over TLSv1.3. Our first check of theguardian.com returned HTTP 200 in 101 ms, of which 20 ms was name resolution and 1 ms the connection. The request to theguardian.com passed through 2 redirects before it settled on https://www.theguardian.com/us. Those figures are the baseline this page measures theguardian.com against from now on, every 20 minutes.
What to do if The Guardian is not working for you
Is it them or you?
Our last check reached theguardian.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. Our next automated check runs within 20 minutes and this page updates with it.
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.
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The Guardian measured against its peers
How it compares with other news & media services
Over the last 30 days The Guardian ranks 18 of 22 news & media services we monitor, measured on recorded uptime. The category averages 99.969%, and The Guardian sits at 100.0%. The steadiest in this group is Yahoo.
On speed, The Guardian answers our checks in about 123 ms against a category average of 302 ms - Faster 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 56 ms and the slowest 193 ms, against a 30-day average of 123 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
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- 151.101.45.111 and 1 other
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- Transport and HSTS
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Five more fields about the server behind theguardian.com.
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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.
.The Guardian status: Common questions
Is The Guardian down right now?
The Guardian 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 The Guardian 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 The Guardian?
The Guardian has been reachable for 100.0% of the last 2 days we have measured, with 0 seconds of recorded downtime.
Does The Guardian have an official status page?
The Guardian does not publish a public status page, which is why independent monitoring and user reports are the only external signal available during an incident.
The Guardian discussion
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