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Privacy
The short version: no accounts, no cookies, no ads, and nothing about you is stored on our side. Some tools ask named outside services for answers, listed below. Cloudflare hosts the site and counts anonymous page views.
last updated 25 Oct 2026
what the site sees
Like any website, pingnet receives your IP address and the headers your browser sends (browser name, language). Cloudflare, which runs the site, adds approximate location and network details (city, ISP, ASN) to each request.
pingnet uses these to answer you, then they're gone. There's no database, no logs of our own, and no record of what anyone looked up: not your IP, not the domains or IPs you search, not your speed results.
what stays in your browser
Two things are saved in your own browser only, never sent anywhere:
theme: your light or dark choice.pn.speed.history: your last 10 speed tests, so you can compare them. Clear them with the clear button on the speed test page.
Speed test share links carry the numbers in the part after #, which browsers never send to a server.
outside services, by tool
Your browser talks to these directly, so each one sees your IP address, plus what's listed. pingnet adds no tracking to these requests.
| tool | service | used for | it also receives |
|---|---|---|---|
| ip | ipify, icanhazip | your other IP (IPv4 or IPv6) | nothing else |
| ip | ipleak.net | which DNS resolver you use | your resolver's IP, through a one-off test name |
| ip | Cloudflare and Google STUN servers | the WebRTC leak check | nothing else |
| ip, dns, whois | Cloudflare DNS (cloudflare-dns.com), Google DNS (dns.google) | DNS lookups, reverse DNS, naming DNS resolvers (via Team Cymru's DNS service) | the names and IPs looked up |
| whois (and ip, as a fallback) | ipwho.is, ipapi.co | approximate location of a looked-up IP | the IP looked up |
| ip, whois | CARTO map tiles | the small map | the map area shown (roughly the city) |
| speed | speed.cloudflare.com | the speed test itself | test traffic only; results are not uploaded |
| whois | domain and IP registries (RDAP) | registration details | asked by pingnet's server, so the registry sees Cloudflare's address, not yours; it receives the name or IP looked up |
page counts
pingnet uses Cloudflare Web Analytics to count page views. It records which page was viewed, the site you came from, your country, browser and device type, and how fast the page loaded. It doesn't use cookies or other browser storage and doesn't follow you across sites. The counts show only totals, never individual visitors.
hosting
Cloudflare hosts and delivers pingnet. To do that it processes every request, and it may keep short-lived logs under its own privacy policy (opens in a new tab). pingnet itself keeps none.
questions
Write to [email protected]. If this page changes, the date at the top changes too. Security issues go to [email protected] (see security.txt).