Free tools

Check a website or an address yourself, from probes in many countries. Free, no sign-up.

• Ping a website or IP addressHow fast it answers from probes in many countries, on a map and in a table.
• Trace routeThe network path to a website or IP address from up to five places, hop by hop, with the countries it passes.
• DNS lookup from many placesOne record type for a name, asked at once from 15 countries: the same answer everywhere, or a change still spreading and answers that differ by region.

The probes are RIPE Atlas anchors run by networks around the world. A few requests an hour per network keep the tools free for everyone.