Site Status Checker

This tool gives you a fast browser-side way to test whether a URL responds to a simple HEAD request and how long that response takes. It is useful when a website feels slow, appears unavailable, or needs a quick reachability check before you spend time troubleshooting DNS, application code, or local network settings. Because the request is made directly by your browser, the result reflects what your own connection can reach rather than what a remote Plain Tools server can reach.

That direct approach also means the page is honest about limitations. Some sites block cross-origin browser probes or reject HEAD requests even though the service itself is up. When that happens, this checker reports the browser failure instead of pretending the site is down. In practice, that makes it a good first-pass diagnostic tool: if the page responds cleanly, you have a quick baseline. If the probe is blocked, move to a dedicated status page or a same-origin test endpoint to separate application outages from browser policy restrictions.