What is a user agent device?

User agent is a string of data from a user’s device that represents data points like OS, browser, carrier, and hardware.

What is my User-Agent used for?

User-agent helps in gathering the statistics on how the operating system and browsers are being used. That data helps in gathering the market-share statistics of different browsers.

What is Safari user agent?

The user agent is a string of text that your browser sends with each web page request. The user agent string is how web sites can identify which web browser and operating system you are using.

What does User Agent reveal?

The User-Agent (UA) is a string contained in the HTTP headers and is intended for browser detection: to identify the device/platform of the visiting user, and can be used to determine appropriate content to return.

How do I get a user agent?

To detect user browser information we use the navigator. userAgent property. And then we match with the browser name to identify the user browser. Now call this JS function on page load, and this will display the user browser name on page load.

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What does your user agent string mean?

What does all of that mean?! Each bit of your user agent indicates something particular about your system. There’s no “standard” way of writing a user agent string, so different web browsers use different formats (some are wildly different), and many web browsers cram loads of information into their user agents.

What does each bit of my user agent mean?

Each bit of your user agent indicates something particular about your system. There’s no “standard” way of writing a user agent string, so different web browsers use different formats (some are wildly different), and many web browsers cram loads of information into their user agents.

What is the use of User Agent header?

User-Agent. The User-Agent request header is a characteristic string that lets servers and network peers identify the application, operating system, vendor, and/or version of the requesting user agent.

Is it possible to change the user agent of a browser?

It is possible to change or “fake” what your web browser sends as its user agent. Some mobile web browsers will let you change what the browser identifies itself as (ie “Mobile Mode” or “Desktop Mode”) in order to access certain websites that only allow desktop computers. If you change this setting, the user agent is what is affected.