How do you determine what browser or device is being used?

How do you determine what browser or device is being used?

The technical term "user agent" is the detail we use to determine what browser or device is being used.

Here are some examples:

CHROME
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.87 Safari/537.36

INTERNET EXPLORER
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko

FIREFOX
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:73.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/73.0

From this we can tell which browser is used and whether the device is a computer or a phone.

Because the device is determined by the operating system (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) in the user agent string, we are limited to only know whether the device is either a computer (desktop computer and laptop) or a smartphone (mobile phone or tablet).

However, sometimes specific brand details are available that we can then use to determine whether the device is an Asus, Lonovo, HP or Samsung etc..

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