How to Track Who Visited your Facebook Profile

Everyone would be really curious to know about who has seen their Facebook profile recently or which people care about them lot. But unfortunately Facebook doesn’t provide any official way to track who visited your Facebook profile. Never fall prey to any third party Facebook applications which claims to show your profile visitors but only steal all your personal information. According the policies laid out by Facebook, it is against their policy to view that information, but if you are really curious to see who really visited your profile read on. There are some ways to find out about who visited your Facebook profile easily. Now let’s see how you can view your visitors to your profile page.

Using a Google Chrome Extension

You can utilize the help of a Google Chrome Extension called Profile Visitors for Facebook to help track the visitors to your Facebook Profile. Even though it does shows you the visitors, it has one limitation as it only works in Chrome browser. So you need to have chrome installed in your system in order to see who visited your Facebook profile and have this extension installed in the browser or else you can’t see the visitors to your profile. How to Use the Extension to see Who Views Your Facebook?

  • First step is to make sure you have Chrome browser installed in your system, if not install it now
  • Now download the “Profile visitors for facebook” extension in your Google Chrome
  • Next simply login in your Facebook account and you could see an additional tab called “Visitors” between your name and Home link on the blue bar on top
  • Just click the “visitors” link and a popup will open to show all the recent visitors who have visited your facebook profile page. Again the irony here is, the extension will only show all visitors who also have this extension installed in their system.
  • The extension is completely free and
  • Profile visitors for facebook is a 100% free and advertisement free chrome extension. It’s concept is cool and works great if more persons are using it.

Use a Manual Method to Find out Your Facebook Profile Visitors

This method involves finding your profile visitors using a manual method where you won’t be using any third party applications or any chrome extensions. Follow the steps detailed below:

  • First step is to log into your Facebook Account
  • Copy the URL of your Facebook Timeline (say for example (www.facebook.com/xyz)
  • Now right click in your browser and click “View page Source”.
  • A new tab will open with all the source code in HTML and JavaScript
  • Now you need to find a text “InitialChatFriendsList” in that source code
  • To find the text, press CTRL+F on your keyboard and type in InitialChatFriendsList exactly
  • Now you can see a list of numbers, which are actually the Profile ID’s of people who have visited your Facebook Profile PageNow take that ID and form a URL like “www.facebook.com/ID”  (without the quotes) where the ID is the number you copied from the source code
  • And now you can see who has visited your profile page more often, as the first ID in the list means they are frequent visitors and the last ID in the list means they never visit your page