Confidence

Overview🔗

IP location reliability varies. For example, a request routed through a data center proxy may not identify the user's location.

The LocationConfidence property should always be consulted before considering how to use results. Four values are provided: High, Medium, Low, and Unknown.

See the IP Tester to see how the LocationConfidence results vary for different IP addresses.

Values🔗

Always check the value of LocationConfidence when determining how to use IP Intelligence results.

• High confidence results can be relied upon and considered useful for all practical purposes.
• Medium confidence results might be useful where the use case can tolerate a degree of imprecision.

Discard Low or Unknown confidence results when making consequential decisions. Instead, ask the user to share their location through a device API such as GPS for reverse geocoding, or to enter their postal address.

See the property dictionary for more information.