How to Check If Your Website Is Blocked In China or Not
"How do I find out if web users in China can access my website at xyz.com?"
Following this story on China blocking Blogger blogs ahead of Olympic games, Todd is looking to conduct similar test for his own website to confirm that his site is not blocked by the Chinese government.
There are at least three reliable services that help you test Internet filtering in China using more or less the same method. They have computers located in different cities of China that try to access your site using the ping command.
If you get a "Packets lost" error or there’s a time-out while connecting to your site, chances are that the site is restricted.
1. Just Ping - They have checkpoints inside Hong Kong and Shanghai in China.
2. Watch Mouse - This service too has monitoring stations inside Hong Kong and Shanghai in China.
3. Website Pulse - In addition to Hong Kong and Shanghai, Website Pulse conducts website connectivity test from a computer located in Beijing as well.
Unlike the previous two services that simply do a ping test, this service connects to your site and tries downloading the complete HTML web page. The total response time shows how long it takes for your website to download.
Related: How to Read Blogger Blogs in China
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Glad to know the great people of China are able to read my meanderings on michaelrbeck.com!
i would be very happy if chinese cant access my site.. atleast it will stop some damned hackers.
why on earth did they block my site ?
Possibly its a blanket ban on all blogs ?
thats a couple of billion readers lost
Looks like just-ping.com won’t help for websites that rejects ping.
I tried cnn.com at just-ping.com and watch mouse.
Result: Packets lost (100%)
Same if I ping from my PC.
But websitepulse.com says its “OK”. so websitepulse.com may be the de facto way to check.
These don’t see to be too reliable. They are showing sites that are blocked but are not and showing some sites as not blocked but indeed are blocked.
OMG - I just tried my website at just-ping.com, and absolutely all packets lost - Never mind just China alone!
I just found out my site has been blocked in China. It was working 10 days ago but not now. The site is on go daddy ip. Is it possible to put it on Chinese ip (Baidu)as well?
So people who cannot log on through go daddy will get it from China IP. Does this make sense ?