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Response Time History
Recent Activity (7 days)
Response time has held steady, averaging 548ms.
- Went from down to upAug 19, 2026, 8:47 AM
- Went from up to downAug 19, 2026, 8:37 AM
About Ars Technica
- Website
- arstechnica.com
- Category
- News
- Monitored from
- EU (Helsinki, Frankfurt, Amsterdam)
- Check interval
- Every 5 minutes
- Monitoring since
- March 30, 2026 (148 days, 5,797 checks)
How we measure this: checks run from EU servers only, so a result here reflects what the EU sees, not a global view. A regional outage, CDN edge-cache issue, or bot/WAF protection that treats our monitoring probe differently than a real visitor can all cause this to disagree with Ars Technica's own status page — that's a limitation of any third-party checker, not just this one.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Ars Technica down right now?
Ars Technica is currently up and running. Our last check from EU servers showed a response time of 662ms with 99.98% uptime over the past 148 days.
What is Ars Technica's uptime?
Ars Technica has a 99.98% uptime measured over 148 days, based on 5,797 checks from Vartio's EU monitoring servers located in Helsinki, Frankfurt, and Amsterdam.
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