Updated on 10. February 2022 by Jan Bunk
Just like you might be interested in seeing how users interact with your website, you might want to know how they use your app. You can do so by taking a look at your website analytics.
Of course you'll want to separate website users from app users in your analytics. You can do so by filtering by the used user agent. The user agent is a short string that the browser sends to websites. The user agent contains information about the browser, for example a Firefox browser could send something like this user agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:47.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/47.0The app uses a few different user agents:
$version is the internal version of the app (e.g. 1.4.8+52) and $operatingSystem is the platform the app is being used on (e.g. ios or android).
$regularUserAgent is the user agent of a mobile browser that would be expected from the device, like Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 12_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/15E148
You don't really need to worry about all of this, unless you want to do something special. Otherwise, just follow the next steps to filter by the user agent in your analytics.
As an example, this is how to filter by user agent in Google Analytics:
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