Ping a Website from Around the World — 5 Free Availability Check Services
You often need to ping a website from different parts of the world: to find connectivity problems with the provider where the server sits, to check response times, or to see how fast a page loads from different cities and countries.
If you just want to see whether a site opens from, say, the US, a proxy or VPN will do. But to quickly check whether a site is reachable from 5, 10 or 20 countries, the services below come in handy.
Services to check website availability from different countries
- Check-Host — ping, HTTP, TCP and DNS checks from dozens of locations worldwide, free and without registration.
- Ping.pe — ping and traceroute from many countries at once, updated in real time.
- Globalping — a free probe network: ping, traceroute, mtr, DNS and HTTP from the countries and cities you choose.
- Ping-Admin — a free one-off check of response time and page load from different locations, plus monitoring.
- Host-Tracker — website availability checks and monitoring with alerts.
How to read the results
- High ping from one country is normal if the server is far away. It’s a bad sign if ping is high from neighboring countries too: the problem may be at the provider or on the route.
- The site doesn’t respond from some locations — check the firewall, country blocking and DNS (the site may not resolve on some DNS servers).
- Ping fails but the site opens — the server may block ICMP. Look at the HTTP check instead of ping.
This list used to include Pingagent, Wipmania, Watchmouse and Just-Ping too, but those services have shut down or changed hands, so I replaced them with current ones.