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Uptime, 24 hours: 100 %
Uptime, 7 days: 100 %
Uptime, 30 days: 100 %

Response time per hour, last 24 hours

Green: response time, full height at 100 ms or more. Red: down. Amber: not confirmed.

Response time by location, last 24 hours

Location	Average response	Reached
Falkenstein, Germany	26 ms	2 of 2 checks
Berlin 2, Germany	311 ms	1 of 1 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 Popular Mechanics could not be reached from at least two locations in two checks in a row.

Recent checks

Time	Status	Locations	Response
2026-10-10 05:19 UTC	Up	1 of 1	25 ms
2026-10-10 04:16 UTC	Up	1 of 1	27 ms
2026-10-10 03:13 UTC	Up	1 of 1	311 ms

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