May 2026 Website Outage Report
Monthly downtime report covering incidents this month, outage trends across categories, a per-platform reliability report, and a full incident summary with incident count and outages by category.
May 2026 saw 32 recorded outage events across 17 of our monitored websites, with cumulative downtime of 2d 19h. Capcom took the top spot for total downtime (11h 26m across 3 incidents). By category, education services accumulated the most downtime (14h across 6 incidents) — a pattern we typically see during peak-hour traffic surges. Average incident length was 2h 7m, longer than usual, which historically correlates with cloud-provider or DNS-level incidents.
In May 2026, we recorded 32 outage events across 17 websites in our monitoring catalog. Below is the ranked breakdown by total downtime, by incident count, and by category. This is our monthly outages report covering downtime statistics, longest outages, and uptime statistics for May 2026. Each entry is a recorded incident report — a real, detected outage event with start time, resolve time, and total outages count for the period.
Top 10 by Total Downtime
Sites with the most cumulative downtime during May 2026, summed across every detected outage.
| # | Site | Category | Incidents | Total downtime |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Capcom capcom.com | Gaming | 3 | 11h 26m |
| 2 | Tencent Video tencent.com | Streaming | 2 | 8h |
| 3 | Northwestern northwestern.edu | Education | 2 | 8h |
| 4 | Kuaishou kuaishou.com | Social Media | 2 | 6h 26m |
| 5 | Con Edison coned.com | Utilities | 3 | 6h 25m |
| 6 | Petfinder petfinder.com | Communities | 3 | 4h |
| 7 | Rice University rice.edu | Education | 2 | 4h |
| 8 | Cars.com cars.com | Automotive | 2 | 3h 26m |
| 9 | SmartNews smartnews.com | News | 2 | 3h |
| 10 | Armor Games armor-games.com | Entertainment | 1 | 3h |
Top 10 by Incident Count
Sites with the highest number of distinct outage events in May 2026 — many short incidents often signal infrastructure stability issues even when total downtime is moderate.
- Capcom 3 incidents
- Con Edison 3 incidents
- Petfinder 3 incidents
- Cars.com 2 incidents
- Kuaishou 2 incidents
- Hilton 2 incidents
- SMU 2 incidents
- SmartNews 2 incidents
- Tencent Video 2 incidents
- Northwestern 2 incidents
By Category
Total recorded downtime per category in May 2026.
- Education 6 incidents 14h
- Gaming 3 incidents 11h 26m
- Streaming 2 incidents 8h
- Social Media 2 incidents 6h 26m
- Utilities 3 incidents 6h 25m
- Communities 3 incidents 4h
- Automotive 2 incidents 3h 26m
- Travel 3 incidents 3h
- News 2 incidents 3h
- Entertainment 1 incident 3h
- Cryptocurrency 2 incidents 2h
- Dev Tools 1 incident 1h
- Stock Market Trading 1 incident 1h
- Real Estate 1 incident 1h
Methodology
Every outage in this report is a recorded event in our database — we mark a site as experiencing an incident when our automated HTTPS probe fails for two consecutive checks OR when crowd-sourced user reports spike to 5x or more above the 7-day baseline. Total downtime is computed from incident start time to resolution time. Sites currently ongoing at month-end have downtime calculated up to the report-generation moment. See the full methodology for the underlying algorithms.
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