Ping Website
Measure HTTPS response time and latency for a website.
âšī¸ Measures HTTPS response time (4 requests), not raw ICMP ping - browsers and most web hosts can't send real ICMP packets, so this is the standard approach for web-based ping tools.
How Ping Website works
How does this tool work?
Instead of ICMP echo packets, it sends four HTTPS HEAD-style requests to the target and times each one, reporting the HTTP status and elapsed milliseconds per attempt plus a min/avg/max summary across the successful ones. The hostname is validated and resolved once, then pinned to that exact IP with CURLOPT_RESOLVE so the follow-up requests can't be redirected to a different address after the check passes.
When would I use this?
Good for a quick check on whether a site is up and roughly how fast it's responding, from our server's vantage point rather than your own browser - useful for ruling out local network or VPN issues when a site seems slow.
Why did this fail even though the site loads fine in my browser?
Raw ICMP ping isn't available to PHP on shared web hosting, and most browsers block it too, so this - like virtually every browser-based ping tool - measures HTTPS response time instead. That means a site can show as failed here if it only serves plain HTTP, if a firewall or WAF blocks requests that don't look like a full browser, or if the TLS handshake itself is slow or misconfigured, none of which would necessarily stop the site loading for you.