Device Detection

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Better User Experiences With Device Detection

Great device detection provides your users the best experience when accessing your web site whether they're using tablets, feature phones, smartphones, TVs, or old fashioned big screen desktop and laptop computers.

51Degrees is the world's fastest and most accurate device detection solution. Here's why:

Fastest: Sub millisecond performance, peaking at more than 22,000,000 detections per second
Proven: Deployed on more than 1,500,000 web sites and rising
Comprehensive: 51,635 hardware models and 1,020,423 combinations of browser, operating system and hardware, more than anyone else
Accurate: Better than 99.9% detection accuracy

51Degrees ensures your customer's screen size doesn't get in the way of your brand conversations.

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How Device Detection Works

Request for web page received by web site or content management system.

51Degrees client hosted high performance device detection uses finger prints (HTTP headers including user agents) relating to 1,020,423 device, browser and operating system combinations to work out the type of device in less than 1 millisecond.

Web site responds with page optimised for the device type

Your web site returns a page optimised for the precise screen and device type ensuring maximum performance and the best user experience every time.

Benefits of Device Detection

User Experience: Improved web site goal completion on every type of device through optimised processes and lighter weight page design for mobiles and tablets. Enables A/B testing including factors such as physical screen size.
Enhanced Analysis: Increased understanding of web site activity as physical screen size, price band and browser capabilities complement your existing web site analysis tools.
Easy Deployment: Simple implementation improves developer productivity, reduces testing time and ultimately speeds up time to market.

About the Technology

Free Open Source: Permissive open source licencing (Mozilla Public Licence 2) provides full access to source code and permits commercial use.
Platforms: Native APIs for .NET, Java, PHP, C, Python, Perl, NGINX, Varnish and Go are easy to deploy. Millions of web sites have already deployed.
Future Proof: Unlike competitor solutions built in the last decade when a few 1000 devices existed, 51Degrees' modern algorithms are designed to continuously deliver high performance as device combinations grow to a million and beyond.
Fastest: All detection performed on client equipment providing sub millisecond performance and negating the need for real time cloud detection services.
Content Management Systems: Integrates with more than 20 leading Content Management Systems making deployment and configuration a doddle.

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