Understanding ASN Results
Learn what an ASN identifies and how to interpret its owner and traffic composition.
IPDO · Documentation team · Updated
What is an ASN?
An Autonomous System Number (ASN) identifies a network that exchanges routes with other networks. It commonly represents an internet provider, cloud or hosting operator, company, university, or government network. An ASN owner is the organization associated with that network in routing and registration data; it does not identify the person using an IP address.
Human and automated traffic
When available, IPDO shows a recent human-versus-automated request ratio for the ASN from Cloudflare Radar. The percentages count observed requests over the displayed period, not unique people or devices. Search indexing, uptime monitoring, and other legitimate automation can contribute to the automated share.
This is an ASN-wide measurement. It cannot establish whether the queried IP is being used by a person, whether it is residential, or whether it is malicious. A missing ratio means the upstream data was unavailable; it does not mean the network has no traffic.
Data limitations
ASN ownership and organization names can differ between registries, routing tables, and geolocation providers. Network operators can also transfer address ranges. Treat the displayed owner as a dataset attribution, not a legal ownership determination.