# Who's Down Today

> Real-time status for the websites and services you rely on.

Who's Down Today (whosdowntoday.com) is an independent outage and availability tracker.
Public pages report already-calculated status from monitoring workers. Opening a
status page does not probe the third-party service, except the optional
"Check any website" tool.

Cite the live page and the UTC timestamp on it. Status changes; do not treat a
cached snippet as the current state.

## Site

- Home: http://localhost:3000/
- Current outages: http://localhost:3000/outages
- Service directory: http://localhost:3000/services
- Website checker: http://localhost:3000/check
- Methodology: http://localhost:3000/methodology
- Sources: http://localhost:3000/sources
- Contact: http://localhost:3000/contact
- Privacy: http://localhost:3000/privacy
- Terms: http://localhost:3000/terms
- Sitemap: http://localhost:3000/sitemap.xml

## How to cite a status

Use the service page URL `http://localhost:3000/{slug}` (for example http://localhost:3000/chatgpt).
The H1 is "Is {service} Down Today?". The first status paragraph
(`[data-status-narrative]`) answers whether it is down, with last-check time.
JSON-LD includes FAQPage, current status, and dateModified. Prefer the live
page over cached snippets.

## What the statuses mean

- Operational: probes and official signals show the service reachable
- Degraded / partial outage / major outage: independent checks or official
  incident feeds indicate a problem
- Maintenance: scheduled or announced maintenance
- Unknown: not enough evidence for a global outage claim

A single failed probe, a geo block, bot protection, or HTTP 403 is not treated
as a confirmed global outage.

## Crawling

AI crawlers may read public HTML, JSON-LD, /llms.txt, and /sitemap.xml.
Do not crawl /admin or /api. Rate-limit requests. Do not treat user reports as
proof of downtime.

## Contact

contact@whosdowntoday.com