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Is ESPN down right now?
HostTracker's monitoring network reached www.espn.com and completed a full check without errors. It has been up for 15h 33m.
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How ESPN has behaved
Every figure here comes from HostTracker's own checks of www.espn.com, not from the vendor's status page.
Response time
311ms avg · 475ms peak
What we check
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HTTP294 ms average, every 10 minutesOK
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Ping14 ms average, every 10 minutesOK
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Page Speed6662 ms average, every 15 minutesOK
90-day uptime
100.000% over 2 measured days · 0 incidents
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Incident history
Last 90 daysNo incidents recorded in the last 90 days.
About ESPN outages
Written by the HostTracker monitoring team · updated from live probe data.
ESPN operates as several distinct products under one brand: the espn.com website for news and scores, the free ESPN app used for scores and highlights on mobile, and paid video layers on top of it - ESPN+ (a separate lower-cost streaming subscription) and the flagship ESPN direct-to-consumer app tier that bundles ESPN's full network lineup, launched in 2025. These fail independently: scores and stats can stop updating across the site and app at once if a live-data feed breaks, even while every page still loads normally, and live video for a specific game can buffer or fail while the rest of the site works fine. A subscription-specific problem, like ESPN+ or the unlimited tier not loading, doesn't mean the free scores and news experience is affected, and the reverse is also true.
Common causes of ESPN downtime
Not sure whether it's ESPN or your own connection? Read the full breakdown in our website down checker guide for a general walkthrough of diagnosing any outage, from DNS failures to expired certificates.
Live-data feed failures that leave scores, stats and game updates frozen or stale across the site and app even though pages still load normally
Video streaming issues for a specific live game or event that leave the rest of the site and app unaffected
ESPN+ or the paid unlimited streaming tier failing to load or play while the free scores and news experience keeps working
Sign-in or account failures that block access to paid content while publicly available scores and articles remain reachable
Traffic surges during marquee live events, such as major games or tournaments, that slow video playback or page loads specifically during peak viewership
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Questions people ask during an outage
The live probe run on this page tests www.espn.com from a broad sample of HostTracker's 300+-location monitoring network - many independent networks at the same moment, rather than just your own connection. If every location fails to reach it, the outage is real and affects everyone; if only a few locations fail while most load normally, the problem is local to those regions or networks rather than ESPN being fully down. A single refresh from your own browser can never make that distinction, because it only ever tests from one vantage point on one network.
Yes. HostTracker lets you add any URL - including third-party services you depend on, not just your own website - as a monitored target, and notifies you automatically the moment it becomes unreachable. Before sending an alert, HostTracker re-verifies a failure from multiple locations in its 300+-location network, so you're notified about real, confirmed outages rather than a single location's momentary blip. The free plan checks two monitors every 30 minutes indefinitely at no cost; paid plans check as often as once a minute, with alerts available through SMS, email, voice call, and several messenger apps.
No - as of the most recent check, www.espn.com is responding normally to HostTracker's monitoring network, and has been up for 15h 33m. Over the last 24 hours it recorded 100.00% uptime across 0 incidents. If it is failing for you specifically, the cause is local - your network, DNS cache, or a regional route - and the live probe results above will show which locations, if any, are affected.
No - as of the most recent check, www.espn.com is responding normally to HostTracker's monitoring network, and has been up for 15h 33m. Over the last 24 hours it recorded 100.00% uptime across 0 incidents. If it is failing for you specifically, the cause is local - your network, DNS cache, or a regional route - and the live probe results above will show which locations, if any, are affected.
No - as of the most recent check, www.espn.com is responding normally to HostTracker's monitoring network, and has been up for 15h 33m. Over the last 24 hours it recorded 100.00% uptime across 0 incidents. If it is failing for you specifically, the cause is local - your network, DNS cache, or a regional route - and the live probe results above will show which locations, if any, are affected.
No - as of the most recent check, www.espn.com is responding normally to HostTracker's monitoring network, and has been up for 15h 33m. Over the last 24 hours it recorded 100.00% uptime across 0 incidents. If it is failing for you specifically, the cause is local - your network, DNS cache, or a regional route - and the live probe results above will show which locations, if any, are affected.
Not in the way a full outage would be. Live scores and stats come from a separate data feed layered on top of the site, so it's a known pattern for pages, articles and navigation to load normally while that feed stalls or falls behind, leaving scores stuck at an old state without the rest of the site being affected.
ESPN+ and the paid ESPN app's unlimited streaming tier are separate products with their own video delivery, so an incident in one doesn't necessarily affect the other, and the free scores and news experience in the app is separate again from both. Comparing which specific product is failing is more useful than treating the ESPN app as one single thing.
That looks more like an issue specific to that one stream, possibly tied to demand during a high-profile event, rather than a platform-wide problem. If other live games and the rest of the site and app are working normally, the fault is more likely scoped to that particular broadcast's video delivery.
No. The free ESPN app covers scores, news and some live content, while ESPN+ is a separate paid subscription with its own slate of live events, and since 2025 there's also a paid unlimited tier inside the ESPN app that bundles ESPN's full network lineup. They run as distinct products, so one can have an issue without affecting the others.
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