archive.is outages and problems
In the past 24 hours, 12 user reports came in for archive.is. Counting only the 15-minute windows with a spike big enough to count as an outage, that comes to 100.00% uptime for the day.
The busiest 15-minute window had 2 reports, about 14 hours ago. That stays below our outage threshold, so it doesn't count as downtime.
archive.is in October 2026
- Problem reports in October (since 28 October)
- 12
Monthly report for October 2026
People who report a problem with archive.is to the outage-report feed behind this page can tag what is affected. These are the categories they can pick; the feed shows no counts per category:
- Website
- Login
- App
archive.is problem spikes, last 30 days
Since 28 October, archive.is had no outage spikes or periods of elevated reports.
A spike is a sharp rise in problem reports from users, kept exactly as this page showed it at the time. This history starts on 28 October 2026. Monthly reports for all services
How to fix archive.is not working
archive.is is up on our end, so if it won't work for you, the problem is most likely on your side. Work through these in order:
Your browser tries to reach archive.is over your own connection, right now. Nothing is sent to us or stored.
Check archive.is reports
Look at the status at the top of this page. If user problem reports for the service are above their usual level, the fault is likely on the service side, so retry later.
Hard refresh the archive.is tab
Press Ctrl+F5 on Windows or Linux, or Cmd+Shift+R on a Mac, to reload the archive.is page without cached files. A half-loaded snapshot or a page that stalls often clears after this.
Open archive.is in a private window
Use Ctrl+Shift+N in Chrome or Edge, or Ctrl+Shift+P in Firefox. A private window ignores most extensions and existing cookies, so you can tell whether either one blocks the page.
Clear site data for archive.is
Click the padlock or tune icon next to the address, open Cookies and site data, and remove the entries for the service. In Firefox, use the padlock menu and choose Clear cookies and site data. Reload the tab after the entries are gone.
While archive.is is down: what to use instead
- Wayback Machine Check here first for pages the Internet Archive already captured, and save a fresh copy yourself if it has none.
- Ghostarchive It grabs a visual capture of pages that lean on scripts or video, so it helps when a plain snapshot comes out broken.
- Conifer Use it when the saved page needs to sit next to a screenshot and a PDF, which makes it easier to cite later.
- Memento Time Travel One search covers several archives at once; handy when you have no idea which one holds the copy you want.
What happens when archive.is goes down
archive.is is a web archiving service that saves a page as it looked at a given moment; journalists and researchers rely on it, and so do people checking a changed or deleted page. When it fails, saving stalls and saved links stop opening, which interrupts citation work.
The save action usually breaks first: you paste a URL and press save, then the page hangs or returns an error before a snapshot appears. Saved links can load slowly or fail outright. An older snapshot may open from one link while a nearby capture does not, so a citation that worked earlier becomes unusable while the service still answers other requests. Trouble often comes in partial or regional bursts: a save can fail on one network while the same URL works on another, and one snapshot can be down while the rest of the service responds.
archive.is IP address, servers and network
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archive.is FAQ
Is archive.is down right now?
Can I save a page that sits behind a login?
Why does an archived copy show an older version than the live page?
Why does a snapshot open as a blank page or bounce me back to the same URL?
Why does archive.is fail on my phone but work on my laptop?
Put the archive.is status badge on your site
Paste one of these into a web page, a blog post or a README. The badge shows the same status as this page, based on user problem reports. Browsers can keep a copy for up to 4 hours. It links back here.
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How we track archive.is
The status on this page comes from user-submitted problem reports for archive.is, counted in 15-minute windows over the last 24 hours. Each window is compared with the normal level for archive.is, so a few complaints on a quiet day don't trigger anything, but a sudden jump well above normal does.
When reports climb well above normal, the status here changes to partial outage or major outage and the chart moves with it. archive.is doesn't publish a public status page that we know of, so user reports are often the quickest sign that something is wrong on their side.