In the last 90 days, Squarespace had 2 major incidents totaling 25 hours 48 minutes of downtime, per StatusBird's independent 2-minute monitoring. That works out to 98.74% availability and a C reliability grade.
Short-term numbers only tell part of the story, so below is the full data, how Squarespace compares to its category, and how to track future incidents without watching a status page all day.
Squarespace outage history: the last 90 days
| Metric (90 days, as of July 2026) | Value |
|---|---|
| Availability | 98.74% |
| Reliability grade | C |
| Major incidents | 2 |
| Total major-outage downtime | 25 hours 48 minutes |
| Average incident duration | 12 hours 54 minutes |
| Most recent major incident | June 05, 2026 |
| Checks in window | 61,564 |
Among the 7 e-commerce platform services StatusBird monitors, Squarespace ranks number 7 for 90-day availability. See the full ranking of e-commerce platform tools by reliability.
Does a Squarespace outage affect your store?
When Squarespace has an outage, your whole website can go down, so shoppers see errors or endless loading instead of your store, and no browsing or purchasing happens at all. Partial incidents can break commerce features specifically, such as checkout failing while content pages still render, or lock you out of the admin so you cannot edit the site or manage orders. Squarespace-managed domains and email campaigns can also be affected in broader incidents.
How can I track Squarespace outages?
Three ways, from slowest to fastest. Squarespace's official status page at status.squarespace.com is authoritative but often acknowledges incidents late. StatusBird's live Squarespace status page reflects independent checks every 2 minutes. Fastest is an alert: StatusBird sends SMS, email, or Slack notifications the moment Squarespace's status changes, so you find out before customer emails do.
Frequently asked questions
My Squarespace site is down. Can I restore it from a backup on another host?
Not practically during an outage. Squarespace is fully hosted with no export path that can be redeployed quickly elsewhere, so there is no self-service failover. The realistic response is confirming the outage on their status page, communicating with customers on channels you control, and waiting for Squarespace to resolve it.
Will my product and order data still be there when Squarespace comes back?
Yes. An availability outage means the servers are unreachable, not that your data is erased, and stores come back with catalog and order history intact. The gap to audit is the outage window itself: orders attempted then may be missing or incomplete, so reconcile payment processor records against Squarespace orders.
How this data is measured
StatusBird checks Squarespace's status every 2 minutes, around the clock, independently of the vendor. The availability figure counts major and critical outages only; minor degradation is excluded so numbers are not skewed by vendors that report small blips near-continuously. Grades run from A+ to F. See the live numbers on the Squarespace reliability page and current status on the Squarespace status page, or browse all 84 service grades.
Know before your customers do
StatusBird monitors Squarespace and 83 other services online stores depend on, plus your own storefront, every 2 minutes. When something goes down you get an SMS, email, or Slack alert with plain-English context, usually before the official status page catches up. Start monitoring free, no card required for the free plan.