Is my site down for everyone, or just me? Here is how to actually find out
The article discusses how to determine if a website is down for everyone or just you. It highlights the limitations of checking from your own browser and provides a method to check the site's status from an external perspective. The method involves using curl or fetch to retrieve the site's response without cookies or session information. The article also emphasizes the importance of checking the site's response, not just the status code, to determine its actual status. This is crucial for identifying issues such as soft 404s, redirects, and noindex tags that may not be immediately apparent.