LinkedIn Profile Views: See Who Viewed Your Profile

There is no standalone “LinkedIn Profile Viewer.” This refers to LinkedIn’s “Who viewed your profile” feature. You can find it directly on your profile under “Analytics.” With a free Basic account, you can see your total profile views and the three most recent visitors from the past 90 days, provided your name and headline are visible when you view other people’s profiles. With Premium, you can see the full list for up to 365 days. As of October 2, 2026.

Where to find your profile visitors

On desktop, you can access it through your own profile. LinkedIn labels the profile icon “Me”.

1. Click “Me” at the top of the homepage.
2. Select “View Profile.”
3. Under “Analytics,” click “[number] profile views.”

In the LinkedIn app

1. Tap your profile picture.
2. Tap the profile picture again to open your profile.
3. Under “Analytics,” tap “[number] profile views.”

If you see nothing there, it usually just means that no one has visited your profile: according to LinkedIn Help, you can only see visitor data if someone has viewed your profile in the past 90 days.

What you see on the page

Even without Premium, LinkedIn shows you more than just a few names. According to LinkedIn Help, a free account shows you the number of people who viewed your profile, the views LinkedIn highlights as interesting, their employers, where they found your profile, and their job titles. Filters, trend charts, and sorting by relevance are only available with Premium.

LinkedIn’s German help page explains what it means by “interesting” in its Premium feature “Interesting viewers”: notable visitors such as senior executives, recruiters, people who have posted jobs, or people from companies you follow. On a free account, they appear as part of the insights list. According to LinkedIn’s help page, you can also switch between the “Profile” and “Search” tabs at the top of the analytics page. The second tab shows how often you appeared in searches. If you appear in searches often but get few profile views, people are finding you but rarely clicking through. In that case, it’s worth reviewing your profile photo and headline.

Can you see who has viewed your profile on LinkedIn?

Partly. Whether you see a name depends on the visitor’s settings, not your account. Someone browsing in private mode appears in your list only as an anonymous “LinkedIn Member.” LinkedIn won’t share their name or any other profile information with you. Premium doesn’t change this: according to LinkedIn Help, even a Premium membership won’t show you the names of members who choose to remain anonymous.

The same applies to you: If you view someone else’s profile, your name will appear there as long as your profile viewing option is set to “Your name and headline”.

Who can see that I visited their profile?

The person whose profile you open sees your details in the format you’ve selected in your profile viewing options. With “Your name and headline,” they see your name, headline, location, and industry. With “Private profile characteristics,” they see partially private details such as your job title, company, school, and industry, but not your name. In private mode, you appear only as “LinkedIn Member.”

A profile visit starts earlier than many people think. If you select a name with a description and profile picture from the search suggestions, LinkedIn opens that person’s mini profile. According to LinkedIn Help, this already counts as a profile view, and the person may be notified. So even a quick look can leave an entry in their visitor list.

Whether you should visit profiles visibly or anonymously depends on your goal. In sales, recruiting and job searches, a visible visit is often intentional because it creates a subtle first point of contact. The article explains when each option makes sense and what you give up in private mode.LinkedIn private mode: View profiles anonymously.

LinkedIn Views: Basic Account vs Premium

You can see the number of profile views in any case. The difference is how many visitors are listed individually and how far back the list goes.

Both figures come from LinkedIn Help (accessed October 2, 2026). Each applies only to visitors who are not browsing anonymously.

LinkedIn lists 365 days in its comparison table for all Premium plans: Premium Career, Premium Business, Premium All-in-One, Sales Navigator Core, and Recruiter Lite. But its information is not entirely consistent. On its help pages about private mode, LinkedIn says Premium members using private mode can see visitors from “the last 90 days.” LinkedIn does not explain how the two figures fit together. If you need the full history, stick with “Your name and headline.”

One limit applies to all accounts: According to LinkedIn, visitor insights depend on visitors’ privacy settings. Premium gives you a longer time period and more detailed analysis. It does not show you the names of people who visited in private mode.

Private mode: three profile viewing options

LinkedIn offers three ways to appear when you visit other people’s profiles: “Your name and headline,” “Private profile characteristics,” and “Private mode.” The section above explains what the person you visit sees in each case. According to LinkedIn’s German help page, you can change this setting on desktop under “Settings & Privacy,” “Visibility,” and “Profile viewing options.” In the app, go through your profile photo, “Settings,” the “Visibility” tab, and “Profile viewing options.”

Important if you don’t have Premium: According to LinkedIn Help, you need to select “Your name and headline” with a free standard account to see who has viewed your profile. If you switch to private profile characteristics or private mode, LinkedIn hides your list of profile visitors. With a Premium account, you can still see your visitor list for the past 90 days, even in private mode.

The article on explains each step, what you gain or lose at each level, and how to hide your own profile from search engines.LinkedIn private mode.

Profile visitors: a signal, not a trophy

Someone who views your profile has taken a step towards you, usually after seeing a comment, post, mention or recommendation. That signals interest, but not buying intent—and certainly isn’t an invitation to send a sales message.

A meaningful response means looking at the person’s background, checking which of your posts may have prompted them, and then building on that instead of pitching. A connection request with a sentence about a shared topic works better than a pitch. If you respond to every profile view with a standard message, you burn the very interest that has just emerged.

Two things are enough to put a profile visit in context: where the person came from and whether they fit your target audience. You can see where they came from on the visitors page, even with a free account. It shows where visitors found your profile. Their role, industry, and company tell you whether they’re a fit. If both check out, it’s worth sending a connection request that refers to why they visited. If neither does, they were just curious—and that’s fine too.

If you want to work through profile visitors and followers as a target audience instead of handling them one by one, you can find the instructions in the knowledge base:Use profile visitors and followers as your target audienceThis article explains what LinkedIn shows you. The knowledge base article shows you how to do it in the tool.

Turn profile visitors into leads

In sales, a visitor list is a list of people who already know you, even if only in passing. It’s a warmer starting point for making contact than a cold search because your message follows a visit they made themselves. To turn those visitors into leads, you need a rule for deciding who to contact and a process that doesn’t depend on how you’re feeling that day.

Manually, it looks like this: Once a week, you go through the list, filter out visitors who don’t fit your target audience, and send the rest a connection request with a sentence explaining why you’re reaching out. You’ll find wording for this in theTemplates for connection requests. Anyone who accepts gets a short first message. You can find examples inThanks for connecting: Messages after your connection request is accepted. If someone doesn’t reply, they get a follow-up after a few days. In theFollow-up templatesis written specifically for the profile visit.

With a free LinkedIn account, the list stays short because LinkedIn only shows you the three most recent names. With Premium, you can see all visitors who weren’t browsing privately and filter them by company and industry. That makes the difference when you’re working on leads regularly.

How CompLeadly helps

CompLeadly lets you use your profile visitors, followers, and the profiles you follow as your target audience. You can send connection requests, messages, and InMails to this audience, or visit their profiles. Anyone who accepts your request receives the opener (the first message after they accept). If they don’t reply, they receive a follow-up. The number of people included depends on what LinkedIn shows your account. The knowledge base article walks you through the setup step by step.Profile visitors as a target audience in CompLeadly.

• Free version (Free):Each function runs as a separate step with a daily limit, for example, 2 connection requests, 1 opener, 1 follow-up, and 25 profile visits per day.
• From Basic onwards:The tool has no fixed limit for these steps. You set the daily limit for each step yourself. You can also schedule complete workflows that combine connection requests, an opening message, and follow-ups into one sequence.
• Visible visits:CompLeadly visits profiles through your own LinkedIn account. The person sees the visit according to your profile viewing setting. CompLeadly doesn’t have its own anonymous mode, and that’s intentional: it makes for a quiet first point of contact.

After signing up, you can try all features for 10 days without a credit card. After that, your account automatically switches to the free version. All plans are listed on thePricing page, the page describes its use in salesCompLeadly for sales teams.

What the visitor list tells recruiters and applicants

For recruiters, the visitor list after a job post is a small pool of potential candidates: anyone who views your profile afterward is at least interested in the role. If you’re looking for a job, it shows whether someone from the company viewed your profile after you applied. A connection request that refers to the role is no longer cold outreach. The signal works both ways. When CompLeadly visits profiles in your target audience, you appear in their visitor lists, as long as you’ve selected “Your name and headline.” CompLeadly can also use your profile visitors as a target audience and send them a connection request, followed by an opener and a follow-up. How many names you see depends on what LinkedIn shows your account. More on using CompLeadly for recruiting:CompLeadly for recruiters.

For recruiting, you can also use searches, pipelines, and saved searches from Recruiter Lite as sources for target audiences, provided you have your own licence. The same sequence of profile visits, connection requests, openers, and follow-ups then works for a pool of candidates.

When you’re looking for a job, it’s just as useful to turn the tables. If you view a recruiter’s or hiring manager’s profile before reaching out, your name will appear in their visitor list, provided your name and profile headline are visible. A complete profile with a clear headline can make them curious enough to take a closer look. You can find out how to show that you’re open to opportunities inLinkedIn Open to Work. Collects common mistakes in outreachAvoiding mistakes when looking for a job on LinkedInIn CompLeadly, you use the standard features for this: search for recruiters or decision-makers as your target audience, visit their profiles, send connection requests with a note, then send an opener and a follow-up. These features are also available in the free version, subject to its daily limits.

How to get more profile views on LinkedIn

Profile views depend on how visible you are. If you never post, comment, or visit other people’s profiles, almost all your profile views will come from search. Here’s what you can do:

• Get found:The search tab in your analytics shows how often you appear in search results. A profile headline that states your role and the value you offer makes people more likely to click when they see your profile. You can find ideas in the freeLinkedIn Headline Generator.
• Appear in the feed:Posts and comments put you in other people’s feeds, and anyone who stops to read may click on your profile. How LinkedIn measures reach is explained byWhat are LinkedIn impressions?, how the feed is sorted is described inLinkedIn Algorithm 2026.
• Visit yourself:Every visit you make to a relevant profile can appear in that person’s visitor list. If they check who viewed their profile, they may visit yours. LinkedIn doesn’t say how often that happens, so you’ll need to look at your own numbers.

Don’t measure success by the total number of views. Twenty views from your target audience are worth more than two hundred from a post unrelated to your offer. The employer and job title details on the profile viewers page show you whether the right people are visiting.

Sources: LinkedIn Help, Access “Who’s viewed your profile?”,Who’s viewed your profile? Differences between Basic and Premium accounts,Visibility settings for “Who’s viewed your profile?” it and enter it Profile viewers in private mode, plus the following in English: Difference between free LinkedIn and LinkedIn Premium accounts it and enter it Browse profiles in private and semi-private mode, all accessed on 2 October 2026. LinkedIn regularly changes its interface and features. Check LinkedIn Help for current information if needed.