Website builder uptime tests
For every website builder I review, I build real sites on it and my own monitor opens them every 5 minutes for 30 days. It shows whether the builder's hosting keeps your site online.
- Builders
- 19
- Checks so far
- 42,476
- Measuring since
- 21 October 2026
Figures updated 27 Oct 2026, 21:45 UTC. Each builder’s page also checks its test sites live when you open it.
Builders tested so far
| Builder | Right now | Last 24 hours | Last 7 days | Up during the test | Typical answer | Outages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Up | 100% | 100% | 100% | 131 ms | 0 | |
| Up | 100% | 100% | 100% | 205 ms | 0 | |
| Up | – | 100% | 100% | 326 ms | 0 | |
| Up | 100% | 100% | 100% | 359 ms | 0 | |
| Up | 100% | 100% | 100% | 386 ms | 0 | |
| Up | 100% | 100% | 100% | 418 ms | 0 | |
| Up | 100% | 100% | 100% | 434 ms | 0 | |
| Up | 100% | 100% | 100% | 463 ms | 0 | |
| Up | 100% | 100% | 100% | 478 ms | 0 | |
| Up | 100% | 100% | 100% | 514 ms | 0 | |
| Up | 100% | 100% | 100% | 597 ms | 0 | |
| Up | 100% | 100% | 100% | 732 ms | 0 | |
| Up | 100% | 100% | 100% | 735 ms | 0 | |
| Up | 100% | 100% | 100% | 796 ms | 0 | |
| Up | 100% | 100% | 100% | 900 ms | 0 | |
| Up | 100% | 100% | 100% | 937 ms | 0 | |
| Up | 100% | 100% | 100% | 963 ms | 0 | |
| Up | 100% | 100% | 100% | 1.6 s | 0 | |
| Not checked yet | – | – | – | – | 0 |
Builder
- Right now
- Up
- Last 24 hours
- 100%
- Last 7 days
- 100%
- Up during the test
- 100%
- Typical answer
- 131 ms
- Outages
- 0
- Right now
- Up
- Last 24 hours
- 100%
- Last 7 days
- 100%
- Up during the test
- 100%
- Typical answer
- 205 ms
- Outages
- 0
- Right now
- Up
- Last 24 hours
- –
- Last 7 days
- 100%
- Up during the test
- 100%
- Typical answer
- 326 ms
- Outages
- 0
- Right now
- Up
- Last 24 hours
- 100%
- Last 7 days
- 100%
- Up during the test
- 100%
- Typical answer
- 359 ms
- Outages
- 0
- Right now
- Up
- Last 24 hours
- 100%
- Last 7 days
- 100%
- Up during the test
- 100%
- Typical answer
- 386 ms
- Outages
- 0
- Right now
- Up
- Last 24 hours
- 100%
- Last 7 days
- 100%
- Up during the test
- 100%
- Typical answer
- 418 ms
- Outages
- 0
- Right now
- Up
- Last 24 hours
- 100%
- Last 7 days
- 100%
- Up during the test
- 100%
- Typical answer
- 434 ms
- Outages
- 0
- Right now
- Up
- Last 24 hours
- 100%
- Last 7 days
- 100%
- Up during the test
- 100%
- Typical answer
- 463 ms
- Outages
- 0
- Right now
- Up
- Last 24 hours
- 100%
- Last 7 days
- 100%
- Up during the test
- 100%
- Typical answer
- 478 ms
- Outages
- 0
- Right now
- Up
- Last 24 hours
- 100%
- Last 7 days
- 100%
- Up during the test
- 100%
- Typical answer
- 514 ms
- Outages
- 0
- Right now
- Up
- Last 24 hours
- 100%
- Last 7 days
- 100%
- Up during the test
- 100%
- Typical answer
- 597 ms
- Outages
- 0
- Right now
- Up
- Last 24 hours
- 100%
- Last 7 days
- 100%
- Up during the test
- 100%
- Typical answer
- 732 ms
- Outages
- 0
- Right now
- Up
- Last 24 hours
- 100%
- Last 7 days
- 100%
- Up during the test
- 100%
- Typical answer
- 735 ms
- Outages
- 0
- Right now
- Up
- Last 24 hours
- 100%
- Last 7 days
- 100%
- Up during the test
- 100%
- Typical answer
- 796 ms
- Outages
- 0
- Right now
- Up
- Last 24 hours
- 100%
- Last 7 days
- 100%
- Up during the test
- 100%
- Typical answer
- 900 ms
- Outages
- 0
- Right now
- Up
- Last 24 hours
- 100%
- Last 7 days
- 100%
- Up during the test
- 100%
- Typical answer
- 937 ms
- Outages
- 0
- Right now
- Up
- Last 24 hours
- 100%
- Last 7 days
- 100%
- Up during the test
- 100%
- Typical answer
- 963 ms
- Outages
- 0
- Right now
- Up
- Last 24 hours
- 100%
- Last 7 days
- 100%
- Up during the test
- 100%
- Typical answer
- 1.6 s
- Outages
- 0
- Right now
- Not checked yet
- Last 24 hours
- –
- Last 7 days
- –
- Up during the test
- –
- Typical answer
- –
- Outages
- 0
Each test runs for 30 days from the day the sites go live. Figures fill in as it runs.
How the uptime test works
During a review I build three sites on the builder from the same briefs every builder gets: a shop, a café and a photographer. For 30 days, every 5 minutes, our monitor opens each one the way a browser does and records whether it answered and how long the server took. The sites are hosted by the builder (a site on our own domain just points to its servers), so this is exactly what the builder’s customers get.
It runs from one fixed location, so response times compare fairly between builders. If our own connection drops, that round is thrown out instead of counted against anyone.
The code and the data are ours. No outside status service is used, and no brand can change its figures.
What counts as down
- Down: no answer within 20 seconds, a server error (5xx), or a missing page (404). Every failure is checked again 15 seconds later before it counts.
- A builder counts as down in a round if any of its test sites is down.
- Refused checks (401, 403, 429) are left out: they mean the site blocked an automated visitor, not that it was down.
- Each round that fails counts as 5 minutes of downtime.
The uptime grade in reviews
Each review shows the builder's uptime test, graded over its 30 days. The grade updates by itself while the test runs and is frozen when it ends:
- 5: up 99.95% of the time or more (about 22 minutes down a month at most)
- 4: 99.9% to 99.94% (up to about 43 minutes a month)
- 3: 99.5% to 99.89% (up to about 3.6 hours a month)
- 2: 99% to 99.49% (up to about 7 hours a month)
- 1: below 99%
Questions
- Why test sites I built instead of the builder's homepage?
- Because your site is what matters. A builder's own homepage can stay up while the servers that host its customers' sites fail. Sites built on the builder show what you would actually get.
- What counts as down?
- A page that doesn't answer within 20 seconds, answers with a server error (5xx), or says the page is gone (404). Every failure is checked again 15 seconds later before it counts, so a single dropped connection is not an outage.
- Why is a builder missing?
- A builder appears once I have bought a plan, built my test sites on it and published its review.
- Does a brand pay to be here, or know it is checked?
- No. Every builder is tested the same way on sites I built and paid for, and none of them can change the figures.