Traceroute
Pick one probe and trace the full network path to a domain or IP, with IPv4 and IPv6 support and automatic IP location for every public hop.
Each run sends an ICMP traceroute from a single probe, up to 20 hops. Mainland China is split into three China Mobile, three China Unicom and three China Telecom probes; overseas probes cover Asia-Pacific, North America, Europe, South America and Oceania.
Frequently asked questions
Traceroute sends probes hop by hop and records every router between the probe and the target, along with the round-trip time of each hop.
Each run uses the single probe you pick, which keeps the path easy to read and makes it simple to compare ISPs or regions. Switch probes and run again to compare.
Cross-ISP routing in Mainland China varies a lot. This tool pins three China Mobile, three China Unicom and three China Telecom residential (eyeball) probes and matches each ISP by ASN.
Globalping's traceroute is capped at 20 hops and the API does not expose a max-hop option. If the target is not reached within 20 hops, the page says the path may be truncated.
Routers may not return TTL-expired messages, or may rate-limit ICMP. It does not necessarily mean the path is broken; later hops can still reply.
It comes from our IP database and is the registration location of that IP, not the device's physical location. Backbone, CDN and anycast addresses often differ.
10.x, 172.16-31.x, 192.168.x, 100.64.x and similar ranges are private, CGNAT or reserved addresses with no public location, so the tool labels them and skips the lookup.
Each traceroute uses one probe and costs one anonymous point. The public probe network provides 250 points/hour per visitor IP, so single-probe traces are cheap.
The measurement goes straight from your browser to the public Globalping network. For domain targets, the browser first checks our DNS endpoint to confirm the domain has an address for the selected IP version. TCPLab does not store the target or the result.