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Response Time History
Recent Activity (7 days)
Response time has been trending faster lately — 229ms on average now, versus 394ms earlier in the week.
- Went from down to upOct 1, 2026, 4:30 AM
- Went from up to downOct 1, 2026, 3:11 AM
- Went from down to upSep 29, 2026, 12:40 PM
- Went from up to downSep 29, 2026, 12:36 PM
About Slashdot
- Website
- slashdot.org
- Category
- News
- Monitored from
- EU (Helsinki, Frankfurt, Amsterdam)
- Check interval
- Every 5 minutes
- Monitoring since
- March 30, 2026 (193 days, 5,252 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 Slashdot's own status page — that's a limitation of any third-party checker, not just this one.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Slashdot down right now?
Slashdot is currently up and running. Our last check from EU servers showed a response time of 352ms with 99.64% uptime over the past 193 days.
What is Slashdot's uptime?
Slashdot has a 99.64% uptime measured over 193 days, based on 5,252 checks from Vartio's EU monitoring servers located in Helsinki, Frankfurt, and Amsterdam.
How do I check if Slashdot is down?
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