Network tools without giving up your data

How it works

I started this because every other IP / DNS / "is it down" site I tried wanted me to fill out a captcha, watch a video, or sit through a popup asking for my phone number. I wanted something I could open in a new tab, get my answer, and close — without a tracking pixel, without an analytics dashboard, without a subscription banner. So I built it.

The trick is that every check runs in your browser. When you click What is my IP?, your browser makes a fetch() to a Cloudflare Worker, which forwards to ip-api.com for geolocation enrichment and returns the parsed JSON. The Worker is stateless — it doesn't write to any database, doesn't read its own logs, doesn't have a session store to look up. The whole request is under 200 lines of TypeScript, all of it open source on GitHub.

This matters more than it sounds. Most "what is my IP" sites route your request through their servers so they can log it. They sell the request log to ad networks or use it to fingerprint your browser. We don't have a database to sell because there isn't one. The Worker code is on github.com/appenzellerdigitalstore-stack/sitetrace — you can grep it for INSERT or fetch(... and decide for yourself.

For DNS lookups, we use DNS-over-HTTPS — your browser encrypts the DNS question to Cloudflare or Google, gets the answer, and renders it. We never see the domain name. For service status, we query each provider's official status page directly from your browser (most of them use Atlassian Statuspage, which exposes a JSON endpoint at /api/v2/summary.json), then render the result locally. The status check tells you what the service itself says, not what some random monitoring provider thinks.

For email deliverability, we send the domain to our Worker which queries SPF, DKIM (on 20 common selectors), DMARC, MX, and BIMI in parallel and gives you a 0-100 score plus a list of what to fix. The Worker is stateless — same model. For SEO, same thing: the Worker fetches the HTML, extracts the title, meta description, H1, canonical, Open Graph, image alts, and renders a 0-100 score.

For RDAP/WHOIS, we query the public RDAP endpoint for the TLD (e.g. rdap.org for .com, .net, etc.). For Wayback snapshots, we query the Wayback Machine's CDX API. For AI content detection, we send the URL to the sitetrace-api Worker which returns a 0-100 percentage. Nothing on our side stores or indexes your input.

Everything else is curl-able JSON. If you want the same checks from a script, from CI, or from a server, the data is the same data — exposed as REST + JSON at api.sitetrace.it.com. The free tier gives you 100 calls per day with no signup, just an IP-based rate limit. The Hobby tier at $9.99/month gives you 5,000 calls per day with an API key. The Pro tier at $30/month gives you 30,000. That's the whole pitch.