Privacy policy

Information shown by the diagnostic

Browser, operating-system, display, language, time-zone, hardware and privacy-preference values are calculated locally in your browser. They are displayed to you and are not submitted as a diagnostic profile.

For the browser update check, the page retrieves current public release numbers for Chrome, Edge and Firefox from their vendors and compares them locally with the major version your browser exposes. Your detected browser version is not sent to those vendors by this check. Safari is treated as an operating-system-managed browser.

Your approximate network location and the address used to load this page are derived from the web request used to deliver the site. An IP address is necessarily visible to a site’s hosting layer. What Is My Web Info does not create a separate history of the diagnostic results shown on screen.

To identify the autonomous system number (ASN) and registered network operator, the server sends a DNS lookup derived from the connection address through Cloudflare’s encrypted DNS resolver to Team Cymru’s IP-to-ASN mapping service. The lookup necessarily encodes the connection address. The result identifies the network announcing that address and may not be the company that bills you for internet access.

To test IPv4 and IPv6 independently, your browser makes two family-specific requests to ipify. That provider necessarily receives the address used for each request and states that it does not log visitor information. If a family is unavailable or blocked, its request fails and the tool says it was not detected.

Optional first-party analytics

Analytics run only after you select “Allow analytics.” Use “Privacy choices” at the bottom of any page to decline or withdraw that choice. Declining leaves the diagnostic and articles available. Withdrawal stops new analytics events and removes the visitor cookie; it does not automatically erase earlier records.

To understand whether the utilities are useful, the site records a privacy-reduced page-view event containing the public page path, broad traffic channel, referring hostname without its path or query, explicit UTM campaign source, medium and campaign labels when present, country code supplied by the hosting network, broad device class and browser family. It does not store the visitor's full query string, raw IP address, full user-agent string, name, email address or the diagnostic result displayed on the page.

The site also records visible-tab engagement time, maximum scroll percentage, selected utility actions and real-user performance measurements such as Largest Contentful Paint, Interaction to Next Paint and Cumulative Layout Shift. A random per-page identifier joins those measurements and selected actions to one page view. A separate random first-party visitor identifier lets the dashboard distinguish unique and returning visitors. The raw identifier is converted to a one-way hash before it is stored and is never combined with a raw IP address. These records are used in an owner-only dashboard to measure traffic, unique and returning visitors, search landings, usability and projected advertising revenue. Analytics events are retained for no longer than approximately 13 months and are then deleted.

Operational logs

Hosting and security infrastructure may process standard request data—such as IP address, user agent, requested URL and timestamp—to deliver the service, prevent abuse and diagnose failures. Those systems may retain operational logs according to their own security and retention practices.

Cookies and local storage

The diagnostic does not use browser storage to save your displayed results. With your permission, analytics set one first-party cookie named wmwi_visitor containing a random identifier for up to 180 days. It is used only to count unique and returning visitors on this website and is not shared across websites or used for advertising profiles. The owner dashboard stores the owner's local revenue-model preference in that owner's browser. The “cookies enabled” result still reports whether the browser supports cookies; the analytics cookie does not contain that result.

Your analytics preference is stored in local storage as wmwi_analytics_consent until you change it or clear site data. This preference is used to remember your choice. The hashed analytics identifier is pseudonymous data.

Advertising

If Google AdSense is activated, Google and other advertising partners may place or read cookies, use web beacons, or process IP addresses to deliver and measure advertising. Google’s use of advertising cookies may enable ads based on visits to this and other sites. You can manage personalized advertising in Google’s Ad Settings.

Ad requests remain paused, including after you accept a consent message. Google’s Privacy & messaging service is connected to present the published European consent message. Its scripts make requests to Google, which receives connection information such as your IP address. Consent choices may be stored by that service, which may read existing Google-domain cookies. The consent service loads independently; the AdSense advertising script is not loaded while ads are paused. Use “Privacy choices” and “Review Google consent” to reopen the applicable message and change or withdraw consent. If the service is blocked or unavailable, ads remain paused. Optional first-party analytics are controlled separately and remain off until you allow them.

Your choices

You can limit exposed signals with browser privacy settings, Global Privacy Control, tracker blocking, a privacy-oriented browser or a reputable VPN. Private-browsing mode alone does not hide your IP address.

For advertising preferences, visit Google Ads Settings.

Contact

For privacy questions or requests, email hello@whatismywebinfo.com. Please do not include passwords, authentication codes or other sensitive account details.