Device Detection

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We are currently running some system maintenance checks and are aware that Hash Trie Data files have not been updated since yesterday (19th March 2018). We will post an update once the files are available to download again.

In this video we go through how to set up our device detection solution on a Linux machine using NGINX, add properties to call from the data file and finally check that the results are being returned as response headers on the site.