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About.com Server Status

Response Header
HTTP headers carry information about the client browser, the requested page and the server status

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 232
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Location: https://www.dotdash.com/
Server: Apache/2.4.54 (Amazon) OpenSSL/1.0.2k-fips
Via: 1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Date: Sat, 13 May 2023 20:31:25 GMT
Age: 904621
cache-control: max-age=3600
X-Served-By: cache-iad-kjyo7100077-IAD, cache-mia-kmia1760077-MIA
X-Cache: HIT, HIT
X-Cache-Hits: 12521, 1
X-Timer: S1684009885.417870,VS0,VE2

DNS Records
DNS Resource Records associated with a hostname

The DNS is up. We have tried pinging About.com. There are no DNS Issues detected!

Type	Name	Value	Class	TTL
A	about.com	151.101.2.137	IN	600
A	about.com	151.101.66.137	IN	600
A	about.com	151.101.130.137	IN	600
A	about.com	151.101.194.137	IN	600
NS	about.com		IN	600
NS	about.com		IN	600
NS	about.com		IN	600
NS	about.com		IN	600
NS	about.com		IN	600
NS	about.com		IN	600
NS	about.com		IN	600
NS	about.com		IN	600

Safety

HTTPS Encryption

HTTPS Encrypted.

Is About safe?

Yes About.com is Safe according to Google Safe Browsing

Speed

Response Time

The website responded in 5.17 seconds.

Pagesize

The size of the HTML webpage is 31.11 kB.

Text compression

Webpage is Compressed: The filesize is 31.11 kB.

How to Solve About.com Down or Outage Issues

We have tried pinging About.com using our servers and the About.com server responded on time, indicating that there are no current About.com problems today.

If About.com is down for you too, the server might be overloaded or unreachable because of network problems, outages or a website maintenance is in progress.

If About.com is UP for us but you cannot access it, try these solutions:

Do a full Browser refresh of the site holding down CTRL + F5 keys at the same time on your browser
Clear Your browser Cookies and Cache
Fix DNS problems by Clearing your local DNS cache to make sure that you grab the most recent cache that your ISP has