This is the address every website you visit can see. It’s assigned by your internet provider, shared by every device on your network, and it changes when you switch networks or connect a VPN. Nothing on this page is stored.
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What Your IP Address Actually Reveals
Less than most people fear, and more than most people expect. The panel above shows everything a website can work out from your address alone.
| A website can see | A website cannot see |
|---|---|
| Your approximate city and region | Your name or street address |
| Your internet provider and their network number | Your account details with that provider |
| Whether you’re on home, mobile or datacentre infrastructure | Anything stored on your device |
| That every device in your home shares this one address | Which device in your home made the request |
Only your internet provider can connect this address to a named subscriber, and in almost every country they’ll only do that under a court order — see can police track you with your IP address?
Why the Location Is Often Wrong
The city shown above comes from a commercial database that maps address ranges to places. It’s an estimate built from provider records, not a measurement, and being out by tens of kilometres is completely normal — it often lands on wherever your ISP has equipment rather than where you are.
That’s worth knowing for two reasons. It’s why “someone has my IP, so they know where I live” is largely unfounded. And it’s why a streaming service occasionally decides you’re in the wrong country. How IP geolocation really works covers the accuracy question properly.
Why Your Address Changes
Your public address belongs to the network you’re using, not to your device. Home Wi-Fi, mobile data, the office and a café each give you a different one, and every device on the same network shares it. That’s why switching off Wi-Fi on your phone changes the result instantly.
Even on one network it shifts over time, because most home connections use dynamic addresses leased from the provider — usually changing after an extended outage, a router swap or maintenance rather than on a fixed schedule. If yours seems to move constantly, why your IP keeps changing explains the causes.
Your Public Address Isn’t Your Local One
The address above is your public one. Your local
address — typically starting 192.168. or 10. — is what your router hands each device
inside your home, and it never leaves your network. You need it for printers, network storage, cameras and
port forwarding, and no website can see it.
Find it with ipconfig on Windows, ip addr show on Linux,
or under your connection’s details on macOS, iPhone and Android. Why both exist is explained in
public vs private IP addresses.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is it dangerous for someone to know my IP address?
Generally not. It reveals a region and a provider, not your identity, and your router rejects unsolicited incoming connections by default. See what someone can actually do with your IP.
Why does it say I’m in a different city?
Geolocation databases estimate rather than measure. Landing on a nearby city, or on the city where your ISP’s equipment sits, is normal and not a sign anything is wrong.
Why is my IPv6 shown as “not detected”?
Your connection is IPv4-only, which is still common. If your provider supported IPv6 you’d see a second, much longer address — more on IPv6 here.
Does a VPN change what this page shows?
Yes — you’ll see the VPN server’s address and location instead of your own, and the label above will say “VPN or datacentre network”. If it still shows your own provider, the VPN isn’t routing your traffic; check it with the VPN leak test.
Do you store my IP address?
No. The lookup happens when you load the page and nothing is written down. The location lookup runs on our own server rather than sending you to a third-party API.
What does the network type mean?
“Residential” means a consumer ISP line. “Datacentre” means a hosting or VPN network. “Mobile” means a carrier connection. Sites use the same signal to decide how much to trust a visitor, which is why datacentre addresses hit CAPTCHAs more often.