ua-tracer
by Paul Kinlan
ua-tracer
what does a user agent actually fetch, follow & run?
Trace U4C1A6qk
First seen: 2026-06-23 11:32:51.086 UTC
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.3
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-23 11:32:51.086 UTC | +0 ms | homepage | GET | Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.3 |
request headers (6){
"connection": "Keep-Alive",
"host": "uatracer.com",
"traceparent": "00-7d9da315f8a7ccfcd26d5435f3642d93-c489c0a533576cf4-01",
"tracestate": "",
"user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.3",
"via": "HTTP/1.1 ord.vultr.prod.deno-cluster.net"
}
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| 2026-06-23 11:35:33.933 UTC | +162847 ms | favicon | GET | Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.3 |
request headers (7){
"host": "uatracer.com",
"traceparent": "00-ddc7c5f5e126d4801e8981a8b36f8bc7-59379a8c671c484b-01",
"tracestate": "",
"user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.3",
"via": "HTTP/1.1 ord.vultr.prod.deno-cluster.net",
"x-deno-userspace-traceparent": "00-ddc7c5f5e126d4801e8981a8b36f8bc7-f73ffe14e529d77d-01",
"x-deno-userspace-tracestate": ""
}
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| 2026-06-23 11:35:34.953 UTC | +163867 ms | apple-touch-icon | GET | Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.3 |
request headers (7){
"host": "uatracer.com",
"traceparent": "00-9aaf2fc92481224b3cb4b747c4b61b20-ffb6053cbb6382d4-01",
"tracestate": "",
"user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.3",
"via": "HTTP/1.1 ord.vultr.prod.deno-cluster.net",
"x-deno-userspace-traceparent": "00-9aaf2fc92481224b3cb4b747c4b61b20-9a4e36df25f5ab3b-01",
"x-deno-userspace-tracestate": ""
}
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