Is Facebook Down Right Now?

The live check above tests facebook.com in real time and tells you whether Facebook is currently reachable. Unlike report-based outage trackers that wait for other users to complain, this runs an actual request to Facebook the moment you load the page — so you get an immediate, first-hand answer. If it comes back down, Facebook is likely having problems for a lot of people, not just you.

What to do if Facebook is down

• Wait a few minutes and check again — many outages are brief and clear on their own.
• Check Facebook's official status page or social accounts for an outage notice and an estimated fix time.
• Restart the Facebook app or reload the page, and try a different browser or device.
• If it's up here but not for you, the issue is on your end — see the fixes below.

Common reasons Facebook goes down

When Facebook does have an outage, it's almost always one of these — and none of them are anything you can fix on your end:

• Server overload. A traffic spike overwhelms Facebook's servers faster than they can scale, and requests start failing.
• Scheduled maintenance. Facebook takes systems offline briefly to ship updates — usually announced in advance on their status page.
• Cloud or data-center problems. An outage at the hosting or cloud provider Facebook runs on can take it down with it.
• DNS or routing issues. A DNS misconfiguration or an internet routing problem can make Facebook unreachable for whole regions.
• A bad deploy. A broken software release can knock the service offline until it's rolled back.

Is Facebook down for everyone or just me?

Our checker tests Facebook from outside your network, so it's a quick way to tell the difference. If Facebook is up for us but broken for you, the cause is usually local: your internet connection, a stale DNS cache, your browser, or a regional restriction. Try another network, clear your cache, or use a VPN to rule out an ISP or geo-block issue. Our guides on how to check if a website is down and fixing "this site can't be reached" errors walk through every fix step by step.