ua-tracer
by Paul Kinlan
ua-tracer
what does a user agent actually fetch, follow & run?
Trace 1P3JDDMA
First seen: 2026-07-01 09:46:53.965 UTC
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (CentOS; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
What this user agent did
Directly-referenced assets:
✗ fetched CSS
✗ fetched JS
✗ fetched image
✗ fetched font (HTML)
Document-level link hints:
✗ fetched favicon
✓ fetched apple-touch-icon
✗ fetched web manifest
✗ fetched preload
✗ fetched prefetch
Second-level follows (proves it parsed the linking file):
✗ followed CSS background-image
✗ followed CSS @font-face
✗ followed manifest icon
✗ followed CSS @import
Frames (does it descend into iframes?):
✗ fetched iframe document
✗ descended into iframe (loaded inner image)
Reporting (a report-only CSP is violated by inline styles; reports can arrive via HTTP headers with no JS, or via in-page beacons):
✗ sent a CSP/Reporting report (any path)
✗ delivered via report-uri/Report-To header (no JS)
✗ delivered via in-page beacon (securitypolicyviolation / ReportingObserver)
Social embed (Open Graph / Twitter card images):
✗ fetched og:image
✗ fetched twitter:image
JavaScript execution:
✗ EXECUTED classic JS
✗ EXECUTED ES module
✗ posted client timing
Server-side request waterfall
Every request the server received for this trace, in receive order. +ms is the delta from the
homepage request.
| Received | Δ | Kind | Method | User-Agent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-01 09:46:53.965 UTC | +0 ms | homepage | GET | Mozilla/5.0 (CentOS; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 |
request headers (8){
"accept-charset": "utf-8",
"accept-encoding": "gzip",
"connection": "close",
"host": "uatracer.com",
"traceparent": "00-d26ae45da3b41ab57bfa9b3de2cd465b-16b9fe8ce284b630-01",
"tracestate": "",
"user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (CentOS; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
"via": "HTTP/1.1 ord.vultr.prod.deno-cluster.net"
}
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| 2026-07-01 09:47:00.436 UTC | +6471 ms | apple-touch-icon | GET | Mozilla/5.0 (CentOS; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 |
request headers (10){
"accept-charset": "utf-8",
"accept-encoding": "gzip",
"connection": "close",
"host": "uatracer.com",
"traceparent": "00-f06b6e2fa79961c68e69f3f4c49c14b9-6bcf2bdc888bd250-01",
"tracestate": "",
"user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (CentOS; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
"via": "HTTP/1.1 ord.vultr.prod.deno-cluster.net",
"x-deno-userspace-traceparent": "00-f06b6e2fa79961c68e69f3f4c49c14b9-65215a9d390a07e3-01",
"x-deno-userspace-tracestate": ""
}
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