ua-tracer
by Paul Kinlan
ua-tracer
what does a user agent actually fetch, follow & run?
Trace M9ZtuwLZ
First seen: 2026-07-03 04:36:35.499 UTC
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_0) AppleWebKit/536.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/19.0.1063.0 Safari/536.3
Bot verification: Not a known bot (no IP-range check applies).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-03 04:36:35.499 UTC | +0 ms | homepage | GET | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_0) AppleWebKit/536.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/19.0.1063.0 Safari/536.3 |
request headers (7){
"accept": "*/*",
"accept-encoding": "gzip;q=1.0,deflate;q=0.6,identity;q=0.3",
"host": "uatracer.com",
"traceparent": "00-397cb35bd7bbeae129c426f15fc16a8e-40918c162804201f-01",
"tracestate": "",
"user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_0) AppleWebKit/536.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/19.0.1063.0 Safari/536.3",
"via": "HTTP/1.1 ord.vultr.prod.deno-cluster.net"
}
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| 2026-07-03 04:36:36.857 UTC | +1358 ms | Open Graph image | GET | Ruby |
request headers (8){
"accept": "*/*",
"accept-encoding": "identity",
"connection": "close",
"host": "uatracer.com",
"traceparent": "00-1c73275030c21abb93920ab26957add1-bfde57fbb21cf624-01",
"tracestate": "",
"user-agent": "Ruby",
"via": "HTTP/1.1 ord.vultr.prod.deno-cluster.net"
}
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| 2026-07-03 04:36:37.333 UTC | +1834 ms | Open Graph image | GET | Ruby |
request headers (8){
"accept": "*/*",
"accept-encoding": "identity",
"connection": "close",
"host": "uatracer.com",
"traceparent": "00-744289e5cc660d3ff5f0111699a6c378-3ab21a2747001730-01",
"tracestate": "",
"user-agent": "Ruby",
"via": "HTTP/1.1 ord.vultr.prod.deno-cluster.net"
}
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