ua-tracer
by Paul Kinlan
trace x3sAW1wz
what does a user agent actually fetch, follow & run?
Trace x3sAW1wz
First seen: 2026-10-05 23:17:38.724 UTC
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ExaSearchBot/1.0; +https://crawler.exa.ai/)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-05 23:17:38.724 UTC | +0 ms | homepage | GET | Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ExaSearchBot/1.0; +https://crawler.exa.ai/) |
request headers (15){
"accept": "text/markdown,text/html;q=0.9,application/xhtml+xml;q=0.8,application/xml;q=0.7,image/webp;q=0.6,*/*;q=0.5",
"accept-encoding": "gzip, deflate, br",
"accept-language": "en-US,en;q=0.5",
"cache-control": "no-cache",
"host": "uatracer.com",
"pragma": "no-cache",
"signature": "sig=:nPog6iarqEMjOiTR73oTLBI+AplzVDfGAzhtJCXyYofnNzGcmgvNzBfXQLHqtdaTWhie82th4VGBe0qMKuHOAw==:",
"signature-agent": "\"https://crawler.exa.ai\"",
"signature-input": "sig=(\"@authority\" \"signature-agent\");keyid=\"sDCpsJpgItYcmF_KhZozOUGIGL6a49yxE3f0yQR5SIA\";nonce=\"F8e4qrLHqBykBJh1KycKqunuXew7zNjxcdS/5Yay9z0lAIi6rJGwAF8PfWCc6bRi4xXKrNKSRjs675WiZVTtRQ==\";tag=\"web-bot-auth\";alg=\"ed25519\";created=1791242258;expires=1791242558",
"traceparent": "00-72c5b1621dc1585ad2f961146efd11d6-fc00a7075dffedfe-01",
"tracestate": "",
"user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ExaSearchBot/1.0; +https://crawler.exa.ai/)",
"via": "HTTP/2 ord.vultr.prod.deno-cluster.net",
"x-deno-userspace-traceparent": "00-72c5b1621dc1585ad2f961146efd11d6-45d00cc0057090e0-01",
"x-deno-userspace-tracestate": ""
}
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