Archive.org status & reliability report
Archive.org has struggled to stay consistently available over the past year, with uptime of just 73.913% — close to 95.3 days per year of downtime. Responses are on the slow side, averaging close to 3848 ms. Encouragingly, the last month has run a little better than the year as a whole. Behind the numbers, we logged 31 confirmed outages, usually back online within 36m.
Composite of uptime, response time & incident stability · high-confidence
Learn moreUptime over the last 12 months
ImprovingEach bar is one calendar month with recorded data, computed from 161 availability checks. Bar height is scaled to this site's own range so month-to-month differences stand out; colour reflects the uptime band.
Uptime by time window
At 73.913%, Archive.org is budgeted for approximately 95.3 days per year of downtime.
Response time
Getting fasterAverage server response over 12 months
Downtime incident history
| Started | Duration | Severity | Detected by | HTTP codes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 2026 · 17:39 UTC | 1h 16m | Full outage | probe | 503 |
| Mar 19, 2026 · 18:43 UTC | 19m | Full outage | probe | — |
| Mar 19, 2026 · 09:48 UTC | 1h 18m | Full outage | probe | 503 |
| Feb 6, 2026 · 19:39 UTC | 30m | Full outage | probe | — |
| Dec 31, 2025 · 22:51 UTC | 36m | Full outage | probe | 503 |
| Dec 24, 2025 · 11:23 UTC | 1h 42m | Full outage | probe | 503 |
| Dec 22, 2025 · 14:28 UTC | 44m | Full outage | probe | 503 |
| Dec 21, 2025 · 05:42 UTC | 1h 2m | Full outage | probe | 503 |
| Dec 3, 2025 · 19:47 UTC | 30m | Full outage | probe | — |
| Dec 2, 2025 · 00:36 UTC | 30m | Full outage | probe | 503 |
| Nov 6, 2025 · 22:27 UTC | 30m | Full outage | probe | — |
| Nov 4, 2025 · 15:47 UTC | 30m | Full outage | probe | — |
What users report
Community-reported problem types (all time).
About Archive.org
archive.org is the official website of the Internet Archive, a U.S.-based non-profit digital library committed to preserving web pages, books, audio, video, and other cultural content for public access. Founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle, the site offers free access to billions of archived web pages, digitized media collections, and research resources, including the popular Wayback Machine for viewing historical snapshots of websites.
Users visit archive.org to explore past versions of websites, research digital history, or access a vast catalog of public-domain and licensed materials. Its web presence remains active and widely used by educators, researchers, and curious internet users.
Recent community reports
Community reporting for Archive.org has been fairly active over the past 4 months, with 19 problem reports logged. Most of those issues involved loading failures rather than isolated slow-downs. Reports came in from nine different countries, which can be an early signal of a more widespread problem.
- 🇺🇸 A visitor from United States rated it 5/5 8 Hrs. ago
- 🇺🇸 A visitor from United States reported: Not Loading 8 Hrs. ago
- 🇮🇳 A visitor from India reported: Not Loading 3 Weeks ago
- 🇨🇦 A visitor from Canada reported: Other 3 Months ago
- 🇨🇦 A visitor from Canada reported: Not Loading 3 Months ago
- 🇨🇦 A visitor from Canada reported: Error Messages 3 Months ago
- 🇵🇱 A visitor from Poland reported: Not Loading 3 Months ago
- 🇵🇱 A visitor from Poland reported: Other 3 Months ago
- 🇲🇽 A visitor from Mexico reported: Other 3 Months ago
- 🇧🇪 A visitor from Belgium reported: Not Loading 3 Months ago
- 🇨🇦 A visitor from Canada reported: Not Loading 3 Months ago
- 🇵🇭 A visitor from Philippines reported: Error Messages 3 Months ago
Other tracked services
Frequently asked questions
Is Archive.org down right now?
Archive.org is currently operational. This reflects our most recent automated probe combined with live community reports.
How reliable is Archive.org?
Archive.org has maintained 73.913% uptime over the past 12 months, earning a reliability grade of F (4/100). That equates to roughly 95.3 days per year.
How often does Archive.org go down?
We recorded 31 confirmed downtime incident(s) for Archive.org in the past 12 months, with a typical recovery time of 36m.
People also checked
Reliability data last updated 2026-06-12 07:37:10 UTC. Measurements are independent and observational.