Is YouTube down?
youtube.com · Streaming · official status page
YouTube has recorded 100.0% uptime over the last 5 days, with no outage. It answers our checks in 160 ms on average.
No problems detected
YouTube answered our last automated check normally, 14 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.
YouTube 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 YouTube 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.youtube.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 YouTube?
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 YouTube outages
YouTube is the largest video service on the internet and runs on Google's global infrastructure, which makes full outages rare and partial ones common. The site has several independently failing pieces: The page shell, the recommendation feed, the playback service, the comment system, Studio for creators, and YouTube Music and TV as separate products.
The symptoms people report most often are a video that spins forever, "An error occurred, please try again later", comments that fail to load under a working video, and sign-in problems that also affect Gmail. Playback errors confined to one video or one resolution are usually an encoding or rights issue rather than an outage. Because YouTube is delivered from Google's edge network, regional problems are frequent - Playback can be broken on one ISP while a neighbouring network is unaffected. Google reports confirmed incidents on its Workspace Status Dashboard, which typically updates well after user reports spike.
What to do if YouTube is not working for you
Is it them or you?
Our last check reached youtube.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
Write the error code down before retrying. Streaming apps show genuinely diagnostic codes, and they are the fastest route to knowing whether the fault is your account, your network or the service.
How streaming services typically fail
Browsing works, playback does not. An error code appears rather than a blank screen, and it is often the most useful thing on the page. Downloads already on the device keep playing, which is a strong signal the fault is in delivery. The rest of the steps, and why this category breaks the way it does, are on our streaming status page, with more background in what error codes mean.
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.
Put a live badge on your own site
An SVG that always shows YouTube’s current state, updated from our checks. Works in a README, a status dashboard or a footer.
Free, no account, and it will keep working. We ask nothing in return beyond the link back.
YouTube measured against its peers
How it compares with other streaming services
Over the last 30 days YouTube ranks 1 of 6 streaming services we monitor, measured on recorded uptime. The category averages 100.0%, and YouTube sits at 100.0%. That is the best record in the group.
On speed, YouTube answers our checks in about 160 ms against a category average of 414 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 103 ms and the slowest 222 ms, against a 30-day average of 160 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 streaming service is listed on the category page.
The server that answered Mostly hidden
- IP address
- 142.251.152.4 and 15 others
- 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 youtube.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 youtube.com, not requested when you opened this page.
Certificate Mostly hidden
- Status
- Valid
- 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.
YouTube status: Common questions
Is YouTube down right now?
YouTube 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 YouTube 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 YouTube?
YouTube has been reachable for 100.0% of the last 5 days we have measured, with 0 seconds of recorded downtime.
Does YouTube have an official status page?
Yes - YouTube publishes one at https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/. It is the authoritative source for confirmed incidents, though official pages usually update after user reports have already peaked.
YouTube 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.