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User-Agent Parsing

2025: List of mobile browser User-Agent strings

Updated for 2025 — In order to get an understanding of which mobile browsers use your site, you need...

Aisling Arundle - 28 May 2025
5 min read
User-Agent Parsing

2023: List of mobile browser User-Agent strings

Updated for 2023 — In order to get an understanding of which mobile browsers use your site, you need...

Tomas Trnka - 06 May 2023
5 min read
User-Agent Parsing

List of smart TV User-Agent strings

Updated for 2023 - Here is our handy list of Smart TV User-Agent strings, including what you can ach...

Tomas Trnka - 04 Apr 2023
4 min read
Device Detection

How DeviceAtlas detects iPhone models

Detecting iPhone models has always been a bit of a headache for companies working in the online spac...

Pawel Piejko - 11 Nov 2018
5 min read
Device Detection

How knowledge of device chipset can help your business

Hardware properties are some of the most useful in our data set, which now contains 192 different pr...

James Kielty - 10 May 2018
4 min read
Device Detection

No ‘below the fold’ in OTT advertising - if you know the device

With more than 70% of American households now watching internet-delivered content on their TV, OTT a...

Martin Clancy - 24 Apr 2018
3 min read
Device Detection

Why DeviceAtlas is both Fast AND Accurate

Speed should never come at the cost of accuracy. Accuracy is the sine qua non of device intelligence...

Ronan Cremin - 30 Nov 2017
4 min read
Device Detection

How to create and leverage your own device database

The wider the variety of devices used, the greater the risk is in terms of providing an inadequate u...

Stephen Clarke - 21 Nov 2017
5 min read
Mobile Web Design

9 excellent examples of adaptive design used for e-commerce

You may think that most of the leading e-commerce websites today are purely responsive. In fact, the...

Pawel Piejko - 17 Oct 2017
7 min read
Device Detection

6 not so obvious ways companies can use device detection

With so many devices connected to the internet most companies have understood the need for a reliabl...

Pawel Piejko - 26 Sep 2017
6 min read
News & Events

DeviceAtlas granted a new patent in the EU

In July 2017 the European Patent Office granted a patent to DeviceAtlas that was originally filed in...

Ronan Cremin - 22 Sep 2017
2 min read
Device Landscape

Where are dual SIM phones used most in 2017?

One of the device properties detected by DeviceAtlas is whether a device can support multiple SIM ca...

Pawel Piejko - 09 Aug 2017
4 min read
User-Agent Parsing

User-Agent parsing made easy

User-Agent parsing allows you to identify devices accessing web content due to the fact that a User-...

Pawel Piejko - 03 Aug 2017
3 min read
Device Detection

Device detection in your environment: deployment options

Device detection is an essential asset for every business that wants a solid understanding of all de...

Pawel Piejko - 19 Jul 2017
6 min read
Device Detection

How to configure your data file with DeviceAtlas

Did you know that DeviceAtlas local license allows you to customize your data file? It helps you red...

Igor Stojakovic - 14 Jul 2017
5 min read
Device Detection

How to identify smartphone hardware with DeviceAtlas

Device detection solutions provide you with an exceptional insight into your mobile audience based o...

Pawel Piejko - 09 Jun 2017
2 min read
Device Landscape

5 Ideas to Boost Your Ad Platform with Device Detection

The growth of mobile traffic is exciting news for all businesses, but with device fragmentation and ...

Pawel Piejko - 16 Mar 2017
3 min read
Device Landscape

Mobile World Congress 2017 summary

As Mobile World Congress 2017 came to an end, we are publishing a short summary of what we learned a...

Pawel Piejko - 03 Mar 2017
6 min read
Mobile Web Design

How to detect touchscreen devices in PHP, Java, .NET and Python

Did you know that according to Google 53% of mobile users abandon websites that take longer than 3 s...

Pawel Piejko - 09 Feb 2017
6 min read
Device Detection

Mapping the full customer journey with device detection

A more sophisticated approach is needed from businesses when it comes to mapping out the modern cust...

Stephen Clarke - 25 Jan 2017
4 min read
Mobile Web Design

Most used phone screen sizes to design websites for in 2017

Knowing the most used smartphone screen sizes in your target market can help you decide on how to ad...

Pawel Piejko - 17 Jan 2017
4 min read
Mobile Statistics

Most common device detection use cases for Demand Side Platforms (DSP)

Programmatic advertising is a great way for advertisers to buy ad inventory without the hassle of de...

Pawel Piejko - 13 Jan 2017
4 min read
Mobile Web Design

AMP for all using DeviceAtlas

AMP is growing in importance in the web publishing world. This post describes a method for exposing ...

Ronan Cremin - 30 Sep 2016
4 min read
Mobile Statistics

LTE and VoLTE phones usage statistics

LTE is the industry standard for mobile connectivity. But how prevalent are the devices that are cap...

tomwryan - 25 Aug 2016
3 min read
Device Detection

Device Data for eCommerce in Action

Device Detection can be used to boost your eCommerce success by providing tailored user experiences ...

tomwryan - 18 Aug 2016
2 min read
Device Detection

Why home-grown device detection methods fail to impress

Using an accurate device detection solution is crucial for all businesses working in the online spac...

Pawel Piejko - 21 Jul 2016
4 min read
Device Detection

What is device detection?

Sound understanding of user devices is critical in today’s online world where so many devices allow ...

Pawel Piejko - 10 Mar 2016
4 min read
Mobile Web Design

How to optimize images for mobile with a little server-side magic

Websites are often bloated with heavy images which make browsing on-the-go a very disappointing expe...

Pawel Piejko - 20 Jan 2016
2 min read
News & Events

DeviceAtlas granted a new patent for device detection technology

DeviceAtlas has been granted a second U.S. patent in the area of device detection technology. Titled...

Pawel Piejko - 05 Jan 2016
2 min read
Device Landscape

Increase Business with Mobile Web Analytics

This post is about mobile web analytics, and how you can use them to improve your business. When you...

tomwryan - 30 Nov 2015
4 min read
Mobile Web Design

Accelerated Mobile Pages is Google's attempt to 'unsuck' the mobile web

Smartphones are the main way to access websites for a growing number of users, even though the mobil...

Pawel Piejko - 20 Oct 2015
5 min read
Mobile Web Design

RESS helps you get the best of adaptive and responsive techniques

RESS (Responsive Web Design with Server-Side Components), also known as the hybrid approach, offers ...

Pawel Piejko - 13 Oct 2015
4 min read
Device Detection

How to detect a mobile browser

If you're looking to provide your visitors with a device-optimized experience that works great on an...

Pawel Piejko - 16 Sep 2015
7 min read
Device Detection

Why We Still Need Device Description Repositories

The concept of Device Description Repository (DDR) was created in the early days of smartphones when...

Pawel Piejko - 03 Sep 2015
3 min read
Mobile Web Design

How top Alexa companies use Adaptive Web Design

We took a stab at checking how some of the largest websites are addressing mobile users today. It tu...

Pawel Piejko - 19 Aug 2015
4 min read
Mobile Web Design

Mobile setup for your website — dynamic serving vs separate URLs

Responsive Web Design is the least flexible approach in terms of addressing the needs of mobile visi...

Pawel Piejko - 30 Jul 2015
5 min read
Mobile Web Design

Web performance qualms make the news again

A recent article published on The Verge has yet again raised the question of web performance. In thi...

Ronan Cremin - 22 Jul 2015
2 min read
Mobile Web Design

A 100MB website is mobile-friendly, according to Google

Have you used Google’s Mobile-Friendly Test tool? If yes, you should know that this tool does ...

Pawel Piejko - 07 May 2015
2 min read
Device Detection

Which areas can you see improve using device detection? [survey]

In a recent survey, we asked DeviceAtlas customers to share their reasons for implementing device de...

Pawel Piejko - 24 Apr 2015
2 min read
User-Agent Parsing

Building a device database and User-Agent strings

Building and maintaining your own device database is a time-consuming effort, given that each entry ...

Pawel Piejko - 09 Apr 2015
4 min read
User-Agent Parsing

User Agent String Analysis

A User-Agent string is a line of text that provides a web server with information about the device r...

Pawel Piejko - 19 Feb 2015
3 min read
Device Detection

Targeting Wearable Devices

Device fragmentation can be considered as both an opportunity and a challenge for mobile marketers a...

Pawel Piejko - 08 Dec 2014
3 min read
Device Detection

Bruce Lawson on Device Detection

An interesting thread has opened up on the blog of Opera's Bruce Lawson. Bruce recently wrote an art...

Martin Clancy - 05 Dec 2014
4 min read
Device Detection

Identifying Language and Locale with DeviceAtlas

Back in May, we added two new data points to DeviceAtlas which are useful for implementations where ...

Martin Clancy - 03 Oct 2014
3 min read
Device Detection

CMS Platforms, Mobile and Device Detection

Content Management Systems or CMSes as they are known to most of us, form the backbone of content pu...

Martin Clancy - 20 May 2014
3 min read
Mobile Web Design

How to implement Drag and Drop for touch devices

Over on dotMobi's mobiForge resource site for those involved in developing for mobile-friendly conte...

Martin Clancy - 18 Apr 2014
0 min read
Mobile Web Design

Why Responsive Web Design is not always the best option for a mobile SEO strategy

There are a lot of misconceptions about what Google is saying about mobile SEO. First and foremost, ...

Pawel Piejko - 21 Mar 2013
5 min read
Mobile Web Design

10 reasons why mobile analytics are mission critical to a sustainable mobile strategy

Analyzing web traffic at the device level is absolutely essential for all businesses willing to unde...

Pawel Piejko - 25 Jan 2012
4 min read
Device Detection

The insider’s Guide to Device Detection

The insider’s guide to device detection: give your Website visitors the site they deserve. With a v...

Ronan Cremin - 07 Jul 2011
13 min read