HTTP Status Code Checker

HTTP Status Code Checker requests a URL and reports the status code it returns along with a plain description of what that specific code means, following any redirects and showing each hop's own code along the way.

Reach for this when you just want to know what a URL currently returns and what that number actually means, when debugging why a page seems broken to a script or crawler but loads fine in a browser, or when learning what an unfamiliar status code you have seen in a log actually indicates.

This checks the response at the moment you run it. Some status codes, particularly 429 and 503, are intentionally temporary and reflect momentary load or rate limiting rather than a permanent problem with the page.