Why are hops shown as * or hidden?

Traceroute

Which networks do packets cross on the way, and where do they stop?

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Each dot is a router. Hidden hops don’t reply, which is normal on cloud networks.
A jump in time between two hops shows where the distance or congestion is.

The health check runs this and 30 more checks on a domain, then ranks what to fix.

Firewalls, switches and Wi-Fi bundled for homes and offices.

Run a traceroute from our servers to see each network hop to a host, with round-trip times and the network (ASN) that owns each hop.

Every result comes in two styles: plain English for everyone, and the exact technical detail for engineers, with the raw JSON one click away.

Those routers don’t send replies. Large networks, including cloud providers, often hide their internal hops, so a trace may show only a few.