ua-tracer by Paul Kinlan

recent traces · ua-tracer

ua-tracer

what does a user agent actually fetch, follow & run?

All recent homepage requests, newest first. This page does not mint a new trace (unlike /), so you can browse the log without adding noise.

Recent homepage requests

Filter by user agent and the matching requests appear right below. Showing requests whose user agent contains facebookexternalhit.

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TimestampUser AgentAssets
2026-07-02 19:16:08.864 UTC
facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)
0
no JS
2026-07-02 19:11:08.123 UTC
facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)
0
no JS
2026-07-02 19:11:07.367 UTC
facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)
0
no JS
2026-07-02 19:11:06.899 UTC
facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)
0
no JS
2026-07-02 19:11:05.604 UTC
facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)
0
no JS
2026-07-02 19:11:01.460 UTC
facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)
5
no JSimgog-img
2026-07-02 19:07:06.332 UTC
facebookexternalhit/1.1
0
no JS
2026-06-22 14:42:01.640 UTC
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_1) AppleWebKit/601.2.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0.1 Safari/601.2.4 facebookexternalhit/1.1 Facebot Twitterbot/1.0
0
no JS
2026-06-22 12:28:36.510 UTC
facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)
0
no JS
2026-06-22 12:28:35.352 UTC
facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)
0
no JS
2026-06-22 12:25:10.882 UTC
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_1) AppleWebKit/601.2.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0.1 Safari/601.2.4 facebookexternalhit/1.1 Facebot Twitterbot/1.0
3
no JSfaviconapple-iconog-img
2026-06-22 12:23:35.136 UTC
facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)
0
no JS
2026-06-22 12:23:34.677 UTC
facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)
0
no JS
2026-06-22 12:23:33.948 UTC
facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)
0
no JS
2026-06-22 12:23:33.109 UTC
facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)
0
no JS
2026-06-22 12:23:28.488 UTC
facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)
6
no JSimgog-img
2026-06-22 12:14:20.156 UTC
facebookexternalhit/1.1
0
no JS
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By user agent

Running counts across all 6835 homepage requests (3 distinct agents). Click one to set the filter above.

User AgentRequestsJS ran
facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)
41 0
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_1) AppleWebKit/601.2.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0.1 Safari/601.2.4 facebookexternalhit/1.1 Facebot Twitterbot/1.0
16 0
facebookexternalhit/1.1
10 0

Unsolicited / well-known requests

Paths a user agent fetched on its own that ua-tracer never links to: robots.txt, sitemap.xml, /.well-known/*, llms.txt, the root favicon, and similar. Reveals what an agent probes on its own initiative.

Filtered to user agent facebookexternalhit. clear filters

By path

Each unsolicited path with its request count and how many distinct user agents hit it. Click a path to see the individual requests; click a user agent below to reverse-look-up everything that UA did.

PathRequestsDistinct UAs
/robots.txt 15 1

Requests (15 shown)

The Related trace column links a probe to a homepage trace from the same user agent and IP within 30 minutes (the same crawler that fetched a well-known file usually also loaded /). The offset shows how long before/after the probe that trace was minted.

TimestampPathUser Agent (click for reverse lookup)Related trace
2026-08-08 08:53:13.981 UTC /robots.txt facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)
2026-08-07 13:36:39.614 UTC /robots.txt facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)
2026-08-07 10:42:58.427 UTC /robots.txt facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)
2026-08-07 10:42:58.223 UTC /robots.txt facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)
2026-08-07 06:51:39.666 UTC /robots.txt facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)
2026-08-06 10:33:27.675 UTC /robots.txt facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)
2026-08-06 10:33:27.255 UTC /robots.txt facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)
2026-08-06 08:27:55.794 UTC /robots.txt facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)
2026-08-06 07:20:02.092 UTC /robots.txt facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)
2026-08-05 10:33:05.465 UTC /robots.txt facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)
2026-08-05 09:39:54.027 UTC /robots.txt facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)
2026-08-05 09:39:52.913 UTC /robots.txt facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)
2026-08-05 07:54:04.485 UTC /robots.txt facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)
2026-08-05 07:54:03.980 UTC /robots.txt facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)
2026-08-04 07:42:23.835 UTC /robots.txt facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)

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