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How whoisbrowsing works

One script tag sends a few live signals from each visitor's browser. Open your own site and every current visitor is drawn on it, for you only. Nothing is stored.

  1. Step 1

    Add one tag

    Paste one script tag into your site, or ask your AI agent to do it. Under 4 KB gzipped, loaded with defer, and it never changes how your page looks.

  2. Step 2

    Open your site

    Click Watch once in your dashboard (in Chrome, being signed in is enough). From then on, just open your own site: the live view is drawn on it, and your own browser is never counted.

  3. Step 3

    Watch

    Every current visitor appears live: their cursor, their clicks, the page they're on and where they came from. To see it work, open your site in a private window and watch yourself arrive.

What your visitors' browsers send

Your visitors' browsers send the page, pointer position, clicks, scroll, device type, source, browser and operating system, and time on site. Never keystrokes, form values or page text.

The script is one tag, under 4 KB gzipped, loaded with defer after your page. It never changes how your page looks. Query strings and #fragments never leave the browser, and long ID-like codes in a path are sent as :id.

whoisbrowsing adds a general place (city or region) from the connection. The IP address is never stored or shown.

The signals a visitor's browser sends while they are on a page
SignalWhat it is
The pageIts address without the query string, #fragment or long ID-like codes
Pointer and clicksWhere the pointer is and what they click or tap, described by the page elements under it
ScrollHow far down the page they are
Device typeDesktop, tablet or phone
SourceWhere they came from: Google, Bing, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, Claude, another site's link, or direct
Browser and operating systemFor example Chrome on macOS
Time on siteHow long they have been on the site, and how many pages this visit

What you see

Open your own site and every current visitor is drawn on the real page, live:

  • a coloured cursor with a fading trail, and clicks as ripples;
  • phone and tablet visitors as a see-through band over the part of the page they're looking at;
  • arrows at the edge for visitors scrolled out of view;
  • a side panel with live counts per page, busiest first, and one line per person.

Each line says where someone is and how they got there, such as near Austin, TX · Google · desktop · /. You see an approximate city, never an identity, plus their device, browser, operating system, time on site and pages this visit.

A shop's own page with its live visitors drawn on it: colored cursors with fading trails and place labels, a phone visitor's band, and a side panel counting visitors per page.
A test shop with five test visitors, as its owner sees it.

Your view, and only yours

The live view is drawn only for you. Your own browser is never counted, and your visitors never see it.

  • Click Watch once in your dashboard, or in Chrome just stay signed in. After that, open your site and the live view is there.
  • To test, open your site in a Chrome Incognito or Safari private window. You appear as a normal visitor.
  • With your dashboard open, a browser notification tells you when someone new arrives, naming their landing page.
The same shop page with the side panel folded into a small pill reading 5 live, while the cursors and the phone band stay on the page.
Fold the panel into a small live count.
The owner's live panel on a phone: you're watching localhost:5173, live now 5, pages with their counts, and one line per person with place, source, device and page.
The same view on a phone.

Every website separate

One site in whoisbrowsing can cover several websites, such as localhost:3000 while you build and example.com in production. Each one is separate: localhost and production never mix, and www. is the same website as the bare domain. You watch each one on its own.

Privacy, built in

A live view needs very little, so very little is sent, and none of it is kept. The privacy page has the details and a paragraph to paste into your own privacy policy.

  • What is sent

    Your visitors' browsers send the page, pointer position, clicks, scroll, device type, source, browser and operating system, and time on site. Never keystrokes, form values or page text.

  • Nothing stored

    Nothing about your visitors is stored on our servers.

  • No cookies

    No cookies on your visitors.

  • Never shown

    Visitors from the EU/EEA, UK and Switzerland, and browsers with Global Privacy Control, are never shown.

Or let your AI agent set it up

A coding agent such as Claude Code, Cursor or Codex can do the whole setup with no one signing up first:

  1. it creates a site with POST /api/agent/sites and gets back a site id, the snippet, a watch link and a claim link;
  2. it adds the tag where your stack expects it;
  3. it hands you the watch link, so you can see yourself live, and the claim link, which keeps the site once you sign in.

Agents can also use the MCP server at https://whoisbrowsing.com/mcp, with the tools create_site, get_install_instructions and check_live.

Everything for agents SKILL.md Install with an AI agent

Using an AI coding agent? Give it this prompt:

Add whoisbrowsing (live visitor view) to this project. Follow https://whoisbrowsing.com/SKILL.md exactly.

See your own cursor appear, then add it to your site

Try the live demo with no account. When you like it, one tag puts it on your site, and you sign in only to keep it.

Watch yourself live (no signup)Add to your site

Free · Under 4 KB · No cookies on visitors · Nothing stored

Who we are

whoisbrowsing is made by Sandeep Arneja LLC. Questions? sandeep.arneja.llc@gmail.com