I have stopped using Down Detector as an accurate measure because a lot of "outages" are just people having issues with a service unrelated to the service they are reporting as down. Ex: AT&T outage in Nashville caused people to report Xbox Live as down, when it wasn't actually down, etc.

I have issues reaching a lot of sites, especially american. Both downdetector, hacker news and others loads extremely slow or not at all. Downdetector had a bunch of failed resources for me..