Originally Posted by
shorthauldad
ITA Matrix's "up or down-ness" is really "working properly or not-ness" and that kind of site isn't going to get you very far detecting that.
Any site that throws messages such as
"Exceeded boombox request quota" isn't playing by the normal rules
He's right, one problem is the JavaScript part of the site doesn't execute properly on IE, leaving you with a blank page. Check with Firefox or another browser.