Uptime checks for your site
We check your homepage every 10 minutes and show availability, how fast it answered and any downtime next to your traffic.
What it does
An Uptime checks card on your dashboard: up or down right now, availability for the range, average answer time, approximate minutes down and the days with downtime. Each change to down or back up lands in your alerts.
Why it matters
A sudden drop in visitors is often not your content: the site was down. Seeing outages next to your traffic explains the dip, and the alert tells you while it is happening.
How to use it
- Go to Sites → Manage for the site and choose Turn uptime checks on.
- Within 10 minutes the Uptime checks card appears on your dashboard. Compare its days with downtime with dips on your traffic chart.
- When the site goes down (two failed checks in a row) or comes back, an alert appears in Alerts.
How it works
- Switch it on per site under Sites → Manage → Uptime checks.
- Every 10 minutes quietstats requests https://your-domain/ once. Any 2xx or 3xx answer within 8 seconds counts as up.
- Down means two failed checks in a row, so a single blip never raises an alarm. Each change to down or back up adds one alert to your alerts inbox.
- Availability = share of checks while the site was not down; minutes down are estimated from the 10-minute checks.
Privacy
- Collected: Only the result of requesting your public homepage: up or down, HTTP status and how long it took
- Collected: No visitor data at all
- No cookies, and nothing stored on the visitor’s device.
- Reports show totals only: never a visitor list, IP address or single visit.
Limits
- Homepage only, every 10 minutes, from Cloudflare’s network
- Downtime shorter than two checks may not show; minutes are approximate
- Alerts go to the alerts inbox; alert emails are off
- Rows: about 288 per site per day while on (2 small upserts per check); 2 reads per dashboard view
Plans
Every plan, including Free. quietstats is free during launch: the Free plan covers 1 site and 5,000 pageviews a month, and no card is needed. See pricing.
Questions
Does this count as a visit?
No. Our checker never runs the tracking script and identifies itself in its user agent, so it never appears in your stats.
Can I check other pages?
Not yet: only the homepage.
Does it cost extra?
No. It is on every plan.