Is archive.today down?
archive.today: answering — it answered 54% of our look-ups in the last hour.
Right now
| archive | last hour | answered (hour) | answered (day) | typical answer | last answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| archive.today (archive.ph, archive.is) | Answering | 54% of 24 | 80% of 528 | 3.3 s | just now |
| Wayback Machine | Answering | 100% of 16 | 97% of 444 | 1.9 s | 1 min ago |
Of the last day's archive.today look-ups, 19% were turned away for asking too often, 0% refused, 0% met a captcha and 1% hit another error or timed out. Of the Wayback Machine's answers, 36% were the publisher's own refusal, saved in place of the article: the site turned the archive's crawler away (who blocks the archives). Refreshed every minute.
What these answers mean
Every figure comes from the archive look-ups our readers set off when they paste a link, made through our own connections. archive.today limits how often one connection may ask, so “turned away for asking too often” is about our connections, not about yours: if it says Answering, the site is up. A captcha is archive.today asking for proof that a person is there; in a browser you can usually solve it and carry on.
Blocked where you are?
A status page can only say whether the archive is up. If it is up here but will not load for you, your network may block it. In Spain, several internet providers have blocked archive.today and its mirrors since mid-August 2026, as our Spanish guide explains; the Wayback Machine is not affected there.
If archive.today is down
Try the Wayback Machine, which keeps its own copies of many articles. A gift link from a subscriber or your library's press access opens the article legally, and many papers give a few free articles a month if you register. When you paste a link into RemovePaywall, we check the page itself and both archives in one step. More options: archive.today alternatives and how to read the news for free.
What we never do
We never ask an archive to save a page, and there is no button for it here. This page only reports what our readers' own look-ups found.