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Is Internet Archive down right now? Live status and outage tracker

No, Internet Archive is up.

No widespread outage detected. 6 user reports in the last hour is within the normal range.

Live Last spike Data refreshes every 5 minutes
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User reports, last 24 hours, 15 minutes a segment: 90 flowing, 5 slow (elevated), 1 jammed (outage)

User reports, last 24 hours

297 reports in total, counted in 15-minute windows

In the last hour, 6 problem reports came in for Internet Archive, against about 12 at this time on a usual day. Over the last 24 hours there were 297 reports. Worldwide, most recent reports were about website (52%) and downloads and updates (29%). The last spike in reports was 5 h ago and lasted 21 min. These are user reports from the US, where most people report Internet Archive problems.

Around the world right now: normal in 18 other countries. Most reports in the last hour: Canada 1. By country

In the past 24 hours, 297 user reports came in for Internet Archive. Counting only the 15-minute windows with a spike big enough to count as an outage, that comes to 98.96% uptime for the day. The most recent spike big enough to count as an outage was 6 hours ago. The busiest 15-minute window of the day had 19 reports, about 6 hours ago.
Reports, last hour
6
20% on the hour before
Uptime, 24 h
98.96%
15 min of outage
Last outage
6 h ago
Lasted 45 min
Busiest 15 minutes
19
19 reports, 6 h ago
Last 24 hours

Internet Archive outages and problems

In the past 24 hours, 297 user reports came in for Internet Archive. Counting only the 15-minute windows with a spike big enough to count as an outage, that comes to 98.96% uptime for the day.

The most recent spike big enough to count as an outage was 6 hours ago. The busiest 15-minute window of the day had 19 reports, about 6 hours ago.

  • Elevated reports
    Ended 5 h ago
    Lasted 15 min
    13peak reports
  • Outage
    Ended 6 h ago
    Lasted 45 min
    19peak reports
  • Elevated reports
    Ended 9 h ago
    Lasted 15 min
    13peak reports
  • Elevated reports
    Ended 10 h ago
    Lasted 15 min
    10peak reports
This month

Internet Archive in November 2026

Problem reports in November
47
Outage spikes
0
Periods of elevated reports
0

Monthly report for November 2026

What went wrong

What people said was wrong in recent problem reports for Internet Archive worldwide.

  1. Website52%
  2. Downloads and updates29%
  3. Search14%
  4. App6%

Share of 66 recent reports that said what was wrong, from every country listed below.

World map

Internet Archive reports around the world

In the last 24 hours, 392 problem reports about Internet Archive came in from 17 countries. Right now reports are at the usual level in every country.

  • Outage now
  • Problems now
  • Normal
Each dot is a group of recent reports, coloured by how its country is doing now; bigger dots, more reports.
CountryNowLast hour24 hours
The US numbers above Normal 6298
Canada Normal 121
The UK Normal 029
Brazil Normal 09
The Netherlands Normal 06
Germany Normal 05
Ireland Normal 04
Japan Normal 04
Sweden Normal 04
Poland Normal 02
France Normal 02
Italy Normal 02

Each country's status compares its reports with the usual level there. 7 more countries had 6 reports in the last 24 hours. Map outlines: Natural Earth.

Last 30 days

Internet Archive problem spikes, last 30 days

Since 7 October, Internet Archive had 2 outage spikes and 6 periods of elevated reports. The longest lasted 45 min, on 31 October.

  • Sat 3 Oct: no data
  • Sun 4 Oct: no data
  • Mon 5 Oct: no data
  • Tue 6 Oct: no data
  • Wed 7 Oct: 1 report
  • Thu 8 Oct: 2 reports
  • Fri 9 Oct: 0 reports
  • Sat 10 Oct: 1 report
  • Sun 11 Oct: 1 report
  • Mon 12 Oct: 13 reports
  • Tue 13 Oct: 0 reports
  • Wed 14 Oct: 2 reports
  • Thu 15 Oct: 3 reports
  • Fri 16 Oct: 2 reports
  • Sat 17 Oct: 3 reports
  • Sun 18 Oct: 2 reports
  • Mon 19 Oct: 0 reports
  • Tue 20 Oct: 1 report
  • Wed 21 Oct: no data
  • Thu 22 Oct: 0 reports
  • Fri 23 Oct: 1 report
  • Sat 24 Oct: 2 reports
  • Sun 25 Oct: 1 report
  • Mon 26 Oct: 7 reports
  • Tue 27 Oct: 2 reports
  • Wed 28 Oct: 36 reports (elevated reports that day)
  • Thu 29 Oct: 162 reports
  • Fri 30 Oct: 154 reports (outage spike that day)
  • Sat 31 Oct: 270 reports (outage spike that day)
  • Sun 1 Nov: 47 reports
  • Elevated reports
    Sat 31 Oct, 23:30–23:51
    Lasted 21 min
    13peak reports
  • Outage
    Sat 31 Oct, 21:21–22:06
    Lasted 45 min
    19peak reports
  • Elevated reports
    Sat 31 Oct, 20:30–20:45
    Lasted 15 min
    14peak reports
  • Elevated reports
    Sat 31 Oct, 19:21–19:36
    Lasted 15 min
    13peak reports
  • Elevated reports
    Sat 31 Oct, 18:21–18:36
    Lasted 15 min
    11peak reports
  • Elevated reports
    Sat 31 Oct, 16:43–17:04
    Lasted 21 min
    14peak reports
  • Outage
    Fri 30 Oct, 19:18–19:44
    Lasted 26 min
    19peak reports
  • Elevated reports
    Wed 28 Oct, 00:20–00:41
    Lasted 21 min
    12peak reports

By country

Each square is one day in the countries with the most reports: red when reports stayed at outage level for half an hour or more, amber when they stayed above the usual level for an hour or more, grey otherwise.

  • The US699
  • The UK100
  • Canada58
  • Germany28
  • Brazil21
  • The Netherlands19
  • Italy16
  • Poland14

Country history starts on 28 October 2026. Days run from midnight to midnight, Central European time.

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 7 October 2026. Monthly reports for all services

Troubleshooting

How to fix Internet Archive not working

Internet Archive 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.org over your own connection, right now. Nothing is sent to us or stored.

  1. Hard reload, then try a private window

    Press Ctrl+Shift+R on Windows or Cmd+Shift+R on a Mac to force a fresh copy of the page. If a Wayback Machine snapshot stays blank or the book reader keeps spinning, open a private window with Ctrl+Shift+N in Chrome or Ctrl+Shift+P in Firefox, where extensions are off by default. A page that works there means an ad blocker or privacy add-on is the problem, so turn it off for archive.org.

  2. Clear cookies and sign in again

    Borrowing and uploading depend on your login, and a stale session can leave you looking signed out or stuck on a loan page that never opens the book. Press Ctrl+Shift+Delete in Chrome or Firefox, clear cookies and cached files, then log back in at archive.org. This signs you out of other sites too.

  3. Switch networks or flush DNS

    School and office Wi-Fi filters sometimes block archive.org, so try mobile data for a minute. If pages load on one connection but not the other, the fault is on your side; run ipconfig /flushdns in Command Prompt on Windows, or sudo dscacheutil -flushcache; sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder in Terminal on a Mac, then reload.

  4. Download with the ia command-line tool

    Large files often fail partway through in a browser, especially on a slow connection. Install the official Python client with pip install internetarchive, then run ia download followed by the item identifier, which is the part of the address after /details/. When an item lists a torrent under Download Options, that is a lighter alternative.

While Internet Archive is down: what to use instead

  • archive.today If you need an older copy of a news article or a page that has since changed, archive.today keeps its own snapshots, separate from the Wayback Machine, and lets you save a fresh one too.
  • Memento Time Travel Paste a URL and it checks several national and university web archives for older copies.
  • Project Gutenberg For classic public domain books, you can read in the browser or download EPUB and plain text files while the archive's lending library is unreachable.
  • HathiTrust Digital Library It has scanned books from research libraries; public domain titles open in full, and you can search inside the rest.
Your device

Fix Internet Archive on Windows, Mac, Android and iPhone

Internet Archive on Windows

Fix
Clear your browser cache or try accessing Internet Archive in an Incognito window. You can also temporarily disable third-party firewall software that might block the site.
Check
Check if other websites load, or use the ping command in the command prompt to see if Internet Archive's servers are responding.
Command Prompt
ping archive.orgTest whether Internet Archive's servers reply
nslookup archive.orgCheck that Internet Archive's DNS resolves
tracert archive.orgTrace where the connection drops
ipconfig /flushdnsClear the DNS cache, then reload

Internet Archive on Mac

Fix
Clear your browser cache and disable conflicting Safari or Chrome extensions that might prevent Internet Archive from loading. You can also try flushing your DNS cache.
Check
Try accessing Internet Archive using Safari's Private Browsing mode, or check the connection status using the Network Utility.
Terminal
ping -c 4 archive.orgTest whether Internet Archive's servers reply
nslookup archive.orgCheck that Internet Archive's DNS resolves
traceroute archive.orgTrace where the connection drops
sudo dscacheutil -flushcache; sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponderFlush the macOS DNS cache, then reload

Internet Archive on Android

Fix
Clear the cache of your mobile browser or try switching from Wi-Fi to mobile data to access the Internet Archive website.
Check
Test if other websites load in your browser, or try opening Internet Archive on another browser app.

Internet Archive on iPhone and iPad

Fix
Clear Safari's history and website data in your iOS settings, or try accessing Internet Archive over a cellular connection instead of Wi-Fi.
Check
Open Internet Archive in a Private Safari tab, or verify if other web services are loading on your device.
Same time

Problems at the same time as Internet Archive

Since 7 October, all 8 of Internet Archive's spikes in problem reports overlapped a spike at another service.

When several services get problem reports at once, something they share, such as a cloud host or a network, can be the real cause. Matching times alone do not prove it.

Most often at the same time

How many of Internet Archive's spikes overlapped one of theirs.

During the latest spike

Internet Archive: Sat 31 Oct, 23:30 to 23:51

11 more services. Red dot: outage. Amber dot: elevated reports.

A spike is a sharp rise in problem reports from users, as the live pages showed it. Times are Central European time.

Busiest times

When people report Internet Archive problems

The busiest hour for reports about Internet Archive is 19:00 to 20:00 Central European time, and the busiest day is Thursday.

By hour of the day

  • 00:00 to 01:00: 2 reports on an average day
  • 01:00 to 02:00: 1.5 reports on an average day
  • 02:00 to 03:00: 0.97 reports on an average day
  • 03:00 to 04:00: 0.94 reports on an average day
  • 04:00 to 05:00: 1.2 reports on an average day
  • 05:00 to 06:00: 0.8 reports on an average day
  • 06:00 to 07:00: 0.46 reports on an average day
  • 07:00 to 08:00: 0.31 reports on an average day
  • 08:00 to 09:00: 0.65 reports on an average day
  • 09:00 to 10:00: 0.31 reports on an average day
  • 10:00 to 11:00: 0.42 reports on an average day
  • 11:00 to 12:00: 0.31 reports on an average day
  • 12:00 to 13:00: 0.31 reports on an average day
  • 13:00 to 14:00: 0.48 reports on an average day
  • 14:00 to 15:00: 0.53 reports on an average day
  • 15:00 to 16:00: 0.64 reports on an average day
  • 16:00 to 17:00: 0.99 reports on an average day
  • 17:00 to 18:00: 0.73 reports on an average day
  • 18:00 to 19:00: 1.6 reports on an average day
  • 19:00 to 20:00: 2.4 reports on an average day
  • 20:00 to 21:00: 2.3 reports on an average day
  • 21:00 to 22:00: 2.2 reports on an average day
  • 22:00 to 23:00: 1.2 reports on an average day
  • 23:00 to 00:00: 1.9 reports on an average day

By day of the week

  • Monday: 5.9 reports on an average Monday
  • Tuesday: 0.75 reports on an average Tuesday
  • Wednesday: 13 reports on an average Wednesday
  • Thursday: 54 reports on an average Thursday
  • Friday: 37 reports on an average Friday
  • Saturday: 49 reports on an average Saturday
  • Sunday: 16 reports on an average Sunday

Each bar is the average number of user reports in that hour, or on that day of the week, from 25 days of reports since 5 October 2026. The busiest bar is highlighted. Spikes in reports are left out, so one outage does not set the pattern.

About

What happens when Internet Archive goes down

Internet Archive is a nonprofit digital library, founded in 1996, that runs the Wayback Machine and holds millions of digitized books, films, recordings and software titles. Students and researchers lean on it daily, as do Wikipedia editors who cite archived pages, so an outage stops you from loading saved snapshots, borrowing books through Open Library, streaming old concerts or finishing a large download.

The Wayback Machine usually breaks first: snapshots hang on the loading bar or come back blank, and Save Page Now stops capturing the pages you submit. Item pages may still open while downloads stall partway through. Problems tend to be partial rather than regional, so search can return results whose files then time out, and Open Library books can refuse to open in the reader even though your loan shows as active. The official status page is the place to look for a notice from the team, while the help centre covers account and borrowing questions once things recover.

Servers and network

Internet Archive IP address, servers and network

IPv4 address
207.241.224.2
IPv6
Not offered
Network
AS7941 · Internet Archive, registered in the United States
DNS hosted by
Cloudflare
HTTPS certificate
Issued by GoDaddy.com, Inc., valid until 9 Feb 2027 (100 days)
HTTP/3
Not advertised
Our check
Answered in 500 ms

Checked from our server in Frankfurt, Germany, 9 h ago, for archive.org. Visitors elsewhere may see different addresses.

Checked from 11 places around the world

All 11 locations got an answer from archive.org. Fastest from Los Angeles (67 ms), slowest from Paris (859 ms). Every location connected to the same address, on Internet Archive (AS7941).

LocationResultTimeAddress reached
FrankfurtGermanyUp465 ms207.241.224.2
ViennaAustriaUp494 ms207.241.224.2
MilanItalyUp523 ms207.241.224.2
ParisFranceUp859 ms207.241.224.2
AmsterdamNetherlandsUp582 ms207.241.224.2
MadridSpainUp463 ms207.241.224.2
WarsawPolandUp511 ms207.241.224.2
Los AngelesUSAUp67 ms207.241.224.2
São PauloBrazilUp598 ms207.241.224.2
SingaporeSingaporeUp548 ms207.241.224.2
TokyoJapanUp351 ms207.241.224.2

Checked with check-host.net from its servers in these cities 9 h ago, for archive.org. Time is how long each server took to load the page.

Questions

Internet Archive FAQ

Is Internet Archive down right now?
The status at the top of this page shows whether user problem reports for the service are above their usual level, counted in 15-minute windows over the last 24 hours. The Internet Archive also has an official status page at https://status.archive.org/. If both look calm, load archive.org on mobile data or in a private window, because a page that opens there points to your own network or a browser extension.

Why does the Wayback Machine say it has not archived a page I know exists?
That 'Hrm' message means no snapshot of that exact address is in the index, so try the URL with and without www, or swap http for https. Small changes matter. If the site owner asked for removal, you see a note that the URL has been excluded, and retrying will not change it.

Why does Save Page Now keep failing or hanging?
Save Page Now fetches the page live, so it fails when the target site blocks crawlers or needs a login. When the Archive is under heavy load, captures can sit in a queue for minutes and end with a vague error message. Wait before you retry, since rapid repeat attempts can hit a rate limit.

Why can't I borrow a book, or why did my loan disappear?
Borrowing needs a free account, so sign in first. Each digital copy goes to one reader at a time, and when every copy is out you only get the option to join the waitlist. Loans expire on their own and the book returns itself, which is why it can vanish from your loans list; some titles were also pulled from lending after the publishers' lawsuit.

Why are downloads from archive.org so slow or stopping halfway?
Files come from the Archive's own servers, and speeds drop when many people pull from the same item at once. Check the download options. Many items include a torrent file, which tends to hold up better for large collections, and a download manager that can resume is the easiest fix when a big file stops partway.
On X

Service updates from @internetarchive

Internet Archive@internetarchive

An update from Brewster Kahle on today's outage.

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Internet Archive@internetarchive

https://Archive.org is currently offline. We are working to restore service now.

231 repliesView on X
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How we track Internet Archive

The status on this page comes from user-submitted problem reports for Internet Archive, counted in 15-minute windows over the last 24 hours. Each window is compared with the normal level for Internet Archive, 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. This is separate from Internet Archive's official status page: user reports tend to show a problem early, while the official page confirms the cause. If the two disagree, check both.

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Problems elsewhere right now

Strips: user reports, last 6 hours, 15 minutes a segment.