Goodreads status
Goodreads uptime & performance at a glance
- Current status
- Operational
- Uptime · 24h
- 100%
- Uptime · 7 days
- 100%
- Uptime · since Aug 5, 2026
- 100%
- Response time
- 615 ms
- Tracked incidents
- 0
- SSL certificate
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Is Goodreads down everywhere, or just for you?
Our probes reached Goodreads successfully from every monitoring region in the last check round.
| Monitoring region | Last check | Success rate (24h) | Avg response |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | Reachable | 100% | 833 ms |
| Europe | Reachable | 100% | 756 ms |
| North America (East) | Reachable | 100% | 576 ms |
| North America (West) | Reachable | 100% | 659 ms |
Based on 204 automated checks in the last 24 hours. A region only appears here once we have real measurements from it.
What to check when Goodreads misbehaves
Goodreads is a social platform in our social catalog. Services like this rarely fail as one block — these pieces can break on their own, so identifying which one is affected usually explains what you are seeing.
- FeedTimeline loading and refreshing
- PostingPublishing text, photos and video
- LoginAccount access
- Media uploadsAttachments processing
- NotificationsAlerts and direct messages
Our automated checks measure reachability and response time of Goodreads's public endpoint. Component level detail above reflects what users of this kind of service typically report, not a vendor status feed.
Incident timeline
No incidents reported. Everything is green.
Goodreads appears stable across all monitored regions. Community reports in the last hour are within normal noise levels.
Monitoring live signals…
No disruptions detected
No regional issues yet
About Goodreads
Goodreads is a social platform where readers maintain digital bookshelves, write book reviews, and track their annual reading challenges. The site facilitates community discussion groups and provides recommendations based on user ratings and genres. When the service experiences downtime, users often report errors when updating their current reading progress or failures in the search function when looking for specific titles. This page on Rimetry tracks whether the platform is responding to requests from different geographic points to confirm general availability.
Goodreads (goodreads.com) is a social service monitored continuously by rimetry from multiple global regions. We probe its public endpoints every 60 seconds to detect outages, latency spikes, and regional degradations the moment they happen.
Right now Goodreads is reporting as operational across our probes, with an average response time of 615 ms and 100.00% uptime over the last 24 hours. Most users connecting to goodreads.com are seeing it work normally.
Common causes of disruption for services like Goodreads include backend API failures, region-specific routing problems at the CDN or ISP layer, expired TLS certificates, DNS misconfigurations, and capacity spikes during major events. rimetry combines automated probes, vendor status feeds, and verified community reports to give you a single high-confidence answer instead of guessing.
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What is Goodreads?
Social network for readers to track, rate, and discuss books.
Goodreads is part of our Social category. You can also review current trending outages across the internet.
Common issues
- · Feed won't load or shows stale posts
- · Uploads and posts failing
- · Login errors
- · Notifications and DMs delayed
Similar patterns often surface across other social providers — cross-check against the global outage map.
Troubleshooting
- · Pull to refresh and check whether old content still renders
- · Try the web version to separate app bugs from platform issues
- · Re-upload media over a stronger connection if posts fail
- · Log out and back in if the feed is empty
- · Disable content blockers that break embedded media
- · Check Goodreads's official social channels
Not sure whether it's you or the service? Run a live speed test, check what your IP looks like from the edge, or watch for regional trouble on the worldwide outage map. For the wider picture, browse recent incidents or filter down to social.
FAQ
- Is Goodreads down for everyone?
Use the live status above — green means it's likely just you. - How often is the status updated?
Every minute from four global regions. - Where can I see past Goodreads incidents?
Every event we've recorded lives in the live incident feed, and older ones are grouped in the monthly incident archive. - What else is broken right now?
See the trending outages page or narrow it to social.