How to gracefully check if Gravatar or a third-party website is working or not?

Question

I just posted the question how-to-determine-why-the-browser-keeps-trying-to-load-a-page and found that my problem is with Gravatar.

I also noticed that StackOverflow is suffering from the same outage.

Does anyone know of an elegant way of determining whether Gravatar or some other third-party website has stood up , trying to extract avatar avatars from them?

This would eliminate the long page load and the endless download cursor ... I shouldn’t say it never ends ... it just takes a long time to leave and the user is very confused when they sit and wait ... for nothing .

Answer 1

You may have another process that periodically checks the status of the site. Set a rule that does not suit you, for example, you can say: "ping time> 1500 ms = down." Ask this process to leave a note in the database table or configuration file. Then you check this value on each rendering page with virtually no cost.

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Answer 2

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