How to See Who Views Your Facebook Profile

Curious about who’s been checking out your Facebook profile? While many apps and websites claim to reveal your profile views, they simply don’t work. But don’t worry—there are still ways to get some insights! This guide will teach you a few tricks to find out who might be looking at your Facebook profile the most.

How to See Who’s Viewed Your Facebook Page

Although there’s no surefire way to see who has viewed your profile the most, you can make educated guesses by observing who consistently comments and reacts to your posts. You might also try logging the IP addresses of people who click on a link from your profile, though this method only works well if your friends are scattered across different cities.

Method 1: Identify Your Profile’s Top Viewers

Monitor who likes your posts:

• People who like your posts probably check your profile too. To test this theory, create neutral but interesting posts, such as a cool photo, an odd news story, or an intriguing scientific discovery.
• Those who frequently look at your profile will likely react to these posts.

Create about 5 or so posts over a week:

• Are there certain people liking or commenting more than others?
• Compare responses to all posts to find out—people who consistently react to your posts may be regularly checking your profile.

Method 2: See Who’s Viewed Your Stories

You can always see who’s looked at your Facebook stories:

• Unlike your profile, Facebook shows you who has viewed your stories. However, this information is only visible to you.
• To see who viewed a story, select the story at the top of your Facebook Feed.
• Click “Viewers” at the bottom-left corner of your story to see who has viewed it. If no one has viewed your story yet, it will say “No Viewers Yet.”

Method 3: Are my suggested friends people who looked at my profile?

Facebook doesn’t suggest new friends based on who views your profile:

• The “People You May Know” list is based on mutual friends, networks (like your workplace or school), activity (including tagged photos and posts), group memberships, and your friends’ uploaded phone contacts.
• Unfortunately, there’s no way to find out who views your profile by looking at your friend suggestions.

Method 4: Advanced Methods to Find Your Top Viewers

Post tracking links to log people’s IP addresses:

• This method works best if you have friends in various cities. Use a URL shortening tool like Grabify to share links on Facebook and log the IP addresses of everyone who clicks them. While you won’t learn people’s names, you can determine their general locations by looking up their IP addresses. Here’s how:

1. Choose an enticing site, such as a funny wikiHow article.
2. Copy the URL of that site.
3. Go to https://grabify.link and paste the URL into the field.
4. Click “Create URL” and agree to the terms.
5. Write down or copy the “Access Link” to track your results.
6. Click “View other link shorteners” to find services that mask Grabify’s name.
7. Select a less obvious URL shortener, such as goo.gl, to create a link to your Grabify URL.
8. Copy the shortened URL and share it on Facebook with an enticing message.

Check the results by visiting the Access Link:

• You’ll find a list of all IP addresses that clicked your link. Repeat this for other interesting links to gather more data.

• IP addresses can change often, so the same person may not always have the same address. However, if they aren’t using a VPN or proxy, it should help you identify their region.

Method 5: What about the people at the top of my Friends list?

Your top friends are those you interact with most on Facebook:

• This means you chat, like, and reply to each other’s posts frequently—not necessarily that they visit your profile. While there’s no way to know if your top friends actually check your profile, it’s likely they do since you communicate often!

• Interestingly, some of your most frequent viewers might be people you rarely interact with at all. Unfortunately, there’s no way to be certain.

Method 6: Are there apps that can show who viewed my profile?

No app or browser extension can reveal who views your profile:

• Facebook doesn’t have this feature, so apps claiming to show this information don’t work.

• Apps that promise to reveal profile views are usually designed to steal your information and potentially attack other users. Avoid installing such apps or browser extensions, even if they seem legitimate.