ua-tracer
by Paul Kinlan
ua-tracer
what does a user agent actually fetch, follow & run?
Trace EX0iVfVM
First seen: 2026-06-30 05:05:45.109 UTC
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/44.0.2403.157 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 05:05:45.109 UTC | +0 ms | homepage | GET | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/44.0.2403.157 Safari/537.36 |
request headers (8){
"accept": "*/*",
"accept-encoding": "gzip, deflate",
"connection": "keep-alive",
"host": "uatracer.com",
"traceparent": "00-54d7b8f1a914a527ec959e2cd23782fa-228658709e138b26-01",
"tracestate": "",
"user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/44.0.2403.157 Safari/537.36",
"via": "HTTP/1.1 ord.vultr.prod.deno-cluster.net"
}
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| 2026-06-30 05:05:47.428 UTC | +2319 ms | iframe document | GET | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/44.0.2403.157 Safari/537.36 |
request headers (9){
"accept": "*/*",
"accept-encoding": "gzip, deflate",
"connection": "keep-alive",
"cookie": "ua-tracer-trace=EX0iVfVM",
"host": "uatracer.com",
"traceparent": "00-5b36f086d7cb93520b2296429506a708-22ef3faf0a4c6ffe-01",
"tracestate": "",
"user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/44.0.2403.157 Safari/537.36",
"via": "HTTP/1.1 ord.vultr.prod.deno-cluster.net"
}
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