Is it possible to track the country where a user is accessing a particular website?

Question

Hi I wish to track a user's country from where my website is accesed . ex; if a customer from a particular is accessing say america how to trace that the user is actually from america. Is there any way

Answer 1

What you are talking about is called GeoIP and there are many ways to do it. Normally this is done using a third party that has a mapping of IP addresses to physical locations.

This is of course not 100% accurate, as people may be using VPNs, TOR or simply spoofing addresses.

Answer 2

It's not possible in all cases, but most IP addresses can be mapped to a location (even down to the city). There are quite a large number of such geomapping services.

Answer 3

here is a question on SO about getting the country from IP address. This link talk about getting the IP address form the request.

Answer 4

Use MaxMind service. http://www.maxmind.com/app/javascript_city They got free and paid versions.