The address at the top is the one our server saw your request come from. Every site you open sees that same address unless something in between changes it. If you browse through a proxy or a VPN, it should be the exit address, not the one your ISP assigned you. If it is your ISP’s address, the proxy is not carrying this browser’s traffic.
What elite, anonymous and transparent mean
The label under the address comes from the request headers that reached us, not from a database. Proxies announce themselves in headers, and the label says how much they gave away.
| Label | What reached our server | What any site learns |
|---|---|---|
| elite | No proxy headers at all | Only the exit address |
| anonymous | Via or Proxy-Connection, but no other address |
That a proxy is in the path |
| transparent | X-Forwarded-For with a second address, Forwarded, or X-Real-IP |
Your originating address |
This site sits behind a CDN, and the CDN adds your own address to X-Forwarded-For on every request. That one entry is ignored. Only an address beyond it counts, so a direct connection reads elite, which is correct: nothing is forwarding you.
The consistency checks
A site deciding whether to trust a visitor rarely looks at the address alone. It compares signals that should agree. The cards under the address run the same comparisons and say which ones disagree.
- Timezone. Your browser reports its timezone. The address is placed in one too. A browser on Berlin time behind a Dallas exit is a mismatch any script on the page can read.
- Language. The region part of your language settings, the
GBinen-GB, against the country of the address. - Address type. Whether the location database places the address in a datacenter range or flags it as a proxy.
- Blocklists. Three DNS blocklists queried for the address: SpamCop, s5h and DroneBL.
- WebRTC. Whether your browser exposes a public address the proxy does not cover. The WebRTC leak test shows every address it found.
The number in the dial is signal consistency, not anonymity. A direct connection has no proxy for the other signals to contradict, so it often scores full marks, though a browser language set for another country still costs points. Each deduction is listed with the reason, so you can see what moved it.
The same check from a terminal
The page reads one JSON endpoint. Call it yourself to see what a script or a proxy presents, which is often different from what your browser presents.
curl -s https://proxy.wiki/wp-json/proxywiki/v1/whoamiThrough a proxy, put the proxy in front of the same request and compare the ip and anonymity fields:
curl -s -x http://user:pass@gw.example.net:8000 https://proxy.wiki/wp-json/proxywiki/v1/whoamiWhat this page does not test
It does not run a DNS leak test. That test needs a DNS server we control, answering unique names, so it can see which resolver asked. We do not run one, so we do not offer the test rather than imitate it. It also does not compute a fraud or risk score. No such number is shown because we have nothing that would make one honest.
One page load is one sample. It shows this connection at this moment.