Device Detection | 51Degrees

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Benjamin CB

Thursday, June 27, 2019 3:00:00 PM

User-Agents and Device Detection

What are User-Agents and how are they used in the device detection process?

We break down what a User-Agent is, and the most important segments we take from them to identify core components such as operating system, hardware model, and browser.

Ali Hutchison

Tuesday, October 2, 2018 12:59:00 PM

51Degrees User Agent Analysis Oct 2018 - New Apples on the Block

51Degrees shares popular User Agent examples including iPhone XS/XS Max

This blog shares the latest 51Degrees User-Agent Analysis including User-Agent examples from the latest Smartphones and Tablets. Currently, we have over 51,000 device models in our database.

Josh Grew

Thursday, September 27, 2018 12:17:00 PM

Varnish Future Proofing - Version 6.1.0 now supported

A look into the challenges of supporting a VMOD in different versions of Varnish

Recently 51Degrees took on a project to provide support for as many Varnish versions as possible. In light of Varnish 6.1 being released, we explored some of the issues faced with supporting the newer versions while providing backwards compatibility.

Paula

Monday, September 10, 2018 12:34:00 PM

Seznam.cz selects 51Degrees Device Detection

Using 51Degrees, Seznam.cz improves targeting capability and user experience across all areas of their business

51Degrees is delighted to announce its agreement with Seznam.cz, leader of the Czech online market.

Seznam.cz selected 51Degrees Enterprise solution due to the superior accuracy, speed, coverage and frequency of updates.

51Degrees

Friday, July 13, 2018 9:00:00 AM

5 Things You Need To Know About Device Detection

and why User Agent Strings are important

With the continuing rise of mobile usage for web and apps, companies like yours need to integrate Device Detection into your analytics, strategic decision making, programmatic advertising and content optimisation process. Device Detection is the process of capturing accurate real-time intelligence about the devices being used to access online information, including web and native apps. This Device Intelligence provides more granular analytics to identify where online content is performing best on any device, regardless of screen size.

Paula

Thursday, May 17, 2018 3:08:00 PM

51Degrees API Capabilities

PHP, LUA, Go, Varnish and NGINX updates

The 51Degrees Device Detection software allows an application to determine the exact details about a user’s device. We support many programming language versions and have made some recent enhancements that are relevant for anyone using PHP, LUA and Go.

Marketing

Wednesday, May 9, 2018 10:12:00 AM

51Degrees European Patent Upheld

European Patent Office rejects Afilias Technologies' opposition to 51Degrees Patent

Paula

Monday, May 7, 2018 9:00:00 AM

How to Find and Manage Memory Leaks

51Degrees recommends Valgrind to test and validate builds

There are many 3rd party tools that can be used to test and validate builds. In this article, we will be focusing on the use of Valgrind alongside the 51Degrees API as a memory leak detector.

Marketing

Friday, May 4, 2018 3:00:00 PM

Device Detection the 51Degrees Way

51Degrees versus ScientiaMobile's WURFL and the importance of primary data sources

Here at 51Degrees, we pride ourselves on the accuracy of our data and as such research our device information using trusted vendor sources, unlike ScientiaMobile.

Ali Hutchison

Thursday, March 22, 2018 2:41:00 PM

Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ User-Agents

Samsung's New Flagship Smartphones

With the excitement of Mobile World Congress 2018 now over, and many new smartphones revealed over the last few weeks, we were pleased to add the Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ smartphones to our device database. In this blog, we look at these new devices and how they compare to the previous models. We also share some example user-agents.