Traceroute

Traceroute sends a small run of probes with a rising limit on how many network hops they are allowed to travel, so each router along the path replies once before the probe reaches the next one. The result is the sequence of routers between our server and the destination, with the response time at each step.

Reach for this when a site is slow or unreachable and a simple ping is not enough to tell you where the delay actually is, when checking whether traffic to a destination is taking a sensible route, or out of plain curiosity about how far away something really is on the network.

This traces from Frabs' own server, not from your device, so the path shown will not always match your own route to the same destination. Some routers are configured not to respond to trace probes at all, which shows here as no response rather than a break in the connection, and is normal rather than a fault.