What is my IP?

Why your IP matters for SEO and analytics

The IP address is the first attribute most analytics, geo-routing and rank-tracking services use to identify a user. If you test your own pages, your IP often distorts the result: bounce rate, click-through, even SERP rankings appear different in your view than they do for a fresh user.

The three SEO scenarios where checking your own IP helps

• Self-exclusion in Google Analytics 4 — add your office and home IPs to the internal-traffic filter so your own visits don't pollute conversion data.
• Geo-IP rank checks — many SERP-tracker tools route through different exit IPs per location. Verify the IP that hits Google when you check a ranking from outside the target country.
• Cloaking and access-control debugging — when a page renders differently for Googlebot than for your browser, you need to know which IP space your test is coming from.

IPv4 vs. IPv6 — quick orientation

An IPv4 address has the shape 78.47.168.7; IPv6 looks like 2a01:4f8:c2c:4f7::1. Most consumer ISPs still hand out IPv4 by default, but IPv6 adoption has crossed 45 % globally (2026). Google indexes both — but its crawler primarily uses IPv4. Some hosters serve different DNS responses for IPv4 and IPv6, which can cause inconsistent indexing.

Privacy — what this page does and doesn't do

This tool shows the IP address that arrived at the Rankmio server. It does not store the IP, does not look up the ISP, does not run reverse DNS and does not query geo databases. Browser fingerprint data (user agent, screen, timezone) is read client-side via JavaScript and never sent to Rankmio.

The GEO angle — does IP affect AI engine visibility?

Indirectly. Generative engines (ChatGPT Search, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews) crawl from their own IP ranges, but they sometimes use country signals derived from a user's IP to filter sources. A page that geo-blocks AI crawlers — even unintentionally via a CDN edge rule — will be invisible in AI citations for that country.