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- Uptime, 24 hours
- 100 %
- Uptime, 7 days
- 100 %
- Uptime, 30 days
- 100 %
Based on 1 day of checks so far. Checks that failed because of how we test, not because of the site, are left out.
Response time, last 24 hours
Response time by location, last 24 hours
| Location | Average response | Reached |
|---|---|---|
| Berlin 1, Germany | 95 ms | 14 of 14 checks |
| Falkenstein, Germany | 99 ms | 14 of 14 checks |
| Berlin 2, Germany | 95 ms | 14 of 14 checks |
Each check runs from all locations at once. A location far from the site’s servers answers later; that says nothing about the site being slow.
Outage history
No confirmed outage on record. An outage is listed once Oxford English Dictionary could not be reached from at least two locations in two checks in a row.
Recent checks
| Time | Status | Locations | Response |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-09 14:29 UTC | Up | 3 of 3 | 94 ms |
| 2026-10-09 14:13 UTC | Up | 3 of 3 | 93 ms |
| 2026-10-09 13:57 UTC | Up | 3 of 3 | 92 ms |
| 2026-10-09 13:42 UTC | Up | 3 of 3 | 103 ms |
| 2026-10-09 13:26 UTC | Up | 3 of 3 | 88 ms |
| 2026-10-09 13:11 UTC | Up | 3 of 3 | 93 ms |
| 2026-10-09 12:55 UTC | Up | 3 of 3 | 99 ms |
| 2026-10-09 12:40 UTC | Up | 3 of 3 | 93 ms |
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Oxford English Dictionary
The OED is the definitive record of the English language, featuring 600,000 words, 3 million quotations, and over 1,000 years of English.
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