Life & fun · September 29, 2025
Traceroute Visualizer
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Traceroute Visualizer launched on September 29, 2025 with 98 votes, #324 of 8,160 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
In plain words
Traceroute Visualizer displays network route data on a map, showing round-trip time and packet distance for network diagnostics. The tool accepts input from traceroute, MTR, and flyingroutes commands, providing a visual representation that existing solutions lacked. It's designed for network administrators and engineers who need to visualize and analyze network paths and latency in real time.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
From the sources
Visualize network traceroute paths with interactive maps. Analyze network hops, latency, and geographic routing for troubleshooting and security research.
This free tool helps network administrators and security researchers visualize network paths with geographic data. Supports standard traceroute, tracert, advanced flyingroutes, and MTR output to see the geographic path your packets take across the internet. traceroute to google.com (142.250.191.14), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 1.234 ms 1.123 ms 1.045 ms 2 10.0.0.1 (10.0.0.1) 5.678 ms 5.432 ms 5.234 ms 3 * * * 4 90.126.109.6 (90.126.109.6) 12.123 ms 12.045 ms 11.987 ms Flyingroutes example (with protocol breakdown): Hop 1: 192.168.1.1 (router) - ICMP: 3.36ms, UDP: 6.69ms, TCP: 6.85ms Hop 2: 96.126.116.1 - ICMP: 18.41ms, UDP: 18.4ms, TCP: 18.48ms Hop 3:…from kriztalz.sh
In the maker’s words, at launch
This nifty tool plots the traceroute results and shows you the RTT as well as the distance travelled by the packets! Supports MTR, flyingroutes and of course, traceroute. The existing solutions were too limited so I made that. Let me know if you have any feedback
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