How to trace an IP address

Do you have a blog or a web page and would like to know where some visitors come from or just want to check where the person you were chatting with is located? Or do you simply need to know your IP address?

Well, it is possible to have an approximate answer to these questions using a very useful Internet service. Approximate because, to know exactly the exact address, you only need to go to the police post and have a valid reason to do so, given the very strict privacy laws.

If we are content to know the region and the province, we can very well use one of the solutions available online. In this guide, we will see how to use ” IP Address ” to trace the desired address. So let’s see how to find an IP address in a simple way.

Our public IP address

Let’s see first what is shown of our public IP and what information is sent. By clicking on the link to open the IP Address site. We can immediately visualize our IP address (What Is My IP Address? Your IP address is: XXX.XXX.XX.X), and a map that shows where the node is and the approximate place from which we are connected and the supplier of our Internet services. Using Google Maps, shows us our position on the map.

By clicking on the ” my IP ” link in the menu at the top or highlighted in blue at the end of the first paragraph, you will have more detailed information on the identification data you transmit, in addition to the IP and your provider, other information is also shown, such as the operating system in use and browser version used.

Trace an IP

It is possible to trace an IP that is not ours, insert the address of a site or an IP in the search bar at the top right of the menu bar and click on the magnifying glass icon, alternatively, click here and enter address or IP in the search bar in the middle. We can either trace the position of a site or directly trace the IP address.

As far as IP is concerned, it does not distinguish whether it is IP of a site or any user because the service is able to work with both. Then enter the site name or IP in the ” IP Tracing and IP Tracking ” field and click on the ” Track IP, host or website ” button. After a few moments, the page will be reloaded. Scrolling down the page, we will find the address details (or IP addresses if it is a site) in the table ” XXX.XX.XX IP Address location and more “.

What data we find

This table shows all the data, we need to locate the IP in question, such as the abbreviation of the state (country code), which in the case of Italy is IT, region (country state) and city (country city).

We are also provided with latitude and longitude and other interesting information such as the time and time zone of the state in which the computer is located, in case it is not the same state from which we are connected, as well as a map of Maps, which graphically illustrates the result of our localization.

Ultimately a good service quite simple to use, useful to understand if someone known in chat is really chatting from one city rather than another or to find out where a particular site is hosted.

Conclusion

There are many online services besides IP Address, which we have just seen, which provide you with more or less complete data and information on an IP address or site ownership, some you will find in the links at the bottom of the article.

As it has already been said, this is a rather elementary and not too precise system as far as localization is concerned, the data we obtain can be considered reliable in most cases, but they should not always be considered as accurate and truthful.

There are many methods to mask or modify our public IP so that it is not the real one, quite easy to do even for inexperienced users, often used for legitimate reasons but often for less noble purposes. The tracing of an online IP works and is reliable as long as the tracking is not going to prevent it, which we will never find out so easily in this way.