Global IP Map

Articles

Behind Global IP Map: how the site is built, what an IP address is, how bots are kept out.

• How many bots connect here?

  Part of a website's traffic is not human. How Global IP Map tells bots from visitors, what the number at the top of the map counts, and what it does not.

• How this site is built

  A live globe with no server to maintain: Cloudflare Workers, a single object holding every connection, a globe drawn on a 2D canvas, and no IP address kept.

• What is an IP address?

  What your IP address says about you and what it does not, the difference between IPv4 and IPv6, between public and private addresses, and how much geolocation is worth.