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Design & Creative Reliability Leaderboard — Week of 20 April 2026

This week's Design & Creative reliability rankings for the week of 20 April 2026 reveal a sharply divided landscape, with four providers achieving strong uptime and four others registering 0% uptime,

23 April 2026·Uptrue Team

🎨 Design & Creative Weekly Comparison

This week's Design & Creative reliability rankings for the week of 20 April 2026 reveal a sharply divided landscape, with four providers achieving strong uptime and four others registering 0% uptime, indicating complete monitoring failures or total outages. Dribbble and Getty Images lead the pack with perfect 100% uptime records and zero incidents recorded. The results highlight significant reliability disparities within the design and creative tools sector that professionals and teams should carefully consider.

TL;DR

Dribbble and Getty Images both achieved 100% uptime with zero incidents, sharing the top reliability positions for the week.
Freepik and Behance posted strong but imperfect results at 99.87% and 98.98% uptime respectively, rounding out the functional providers.
Canva, Pexels, Shutterstock, and Unsplash all recorded 0% uptime with N/A response times, suggesting monitoring endpoint failures or sustained outages during the tracking period.
Behance stood out with the fastest response time of 65ms despite its slightly lower uptime, while Getty Images led on speed among the perfect-uptime providers at 304ms.

Uptime This Week

Dribbble and Getty Images claim joint top honours this week, both delivering flawless availability with no incidents logged, though Getty Images holds a marginal edge in response speed at 304ms versus Dribbble's 323ms. Freepik's 99.87% uptime is a commendable result, representing only a brief period of unavailability across the full week. Behance's 98.98% uptime is respectable, and its 65ms response time is notably the fastest in the entire ranking, suggesting strong infrastructure performance when online. The 0% uptime results for Canva, Pexels, Shutterstock, and Unsplash are a significant concern — whether caused by genuine outages or monitoring configuration issues, these findings mean reliable availability data for those services could not be confirmed this week.

Response Time

Response time comparison across all ranked providers.

Incidents & Downtime

Incident frequency and total downtime across the ranking period.

Historical Context

Design and creative platforms have historically faced reliability challenges during peak usage periods, particularly as demand for collaborative and cloud-based tools has surged in recent years. Providers in this space have been investing in infrastructure resilience, though this week's data suggests the gap between top and bottom performers remains considerable.

Which Should You Choose?

When selecting a design or creative platform for professional or team use, prioritise providers with consistent uptime track records and transparent incident histories, as downtime can directly disrupt creative workflows and client deliverables. Consider cross-referencing multiple weeks of reliability data rather than relying on a single snapshot, particularly given the anomalous 0% uptime results seen this week for several major providers.

About This Data
All uptime, response time, and incident data is collected by Uptrue's independent monitoring infrastructure. HTTP checks run every 5 minutes. An incident is recorded only after 2+ consecutive failed checks. Uptrue is not affiliated with any monitored service. For corrections: reports@uptrue.io

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Dribbble the most reliable Design & Creative platform this week?

Yes, Dribbble shares the top position this week alongside Getty Images, both achieving 100% uptime with zero incidents recorded for the week of 20 April 2026. Dribbble's response time came in at 323ms, which is slightly slower than Getty Images' 304ms, but both platforms demonstrated exemplary availability throughout the tracking period.

How is the Design & Creative reliability ranking determined?

The ranking is determined by Uptrue's independent uptime monitoring service, which continuously checks each provider's availability from multiple locations and records uptime percentage, average response time in milliseconds, and the number of incidents detected over the tracking period. Providers are ranked primarily by uptime percentage, with response time used as a secondary indicator of performance quality.

How can I get alerted when a Design & Creative provider goes down?

Uptrue offers uptime alerting that notifies you in real time when a monitored provider experiences downtime, so you can react quickly and switch workflows if needed. You can set up alerts for any tracked service through your Uptrue dashboard, with notifications available via email, SMS, or webhook integrations with tools like Slack and PagerDuty.