[UPHPU] Tracking Mobile Visitors

Craig Jackson tapocol at gmail.com
Fri Dec 12 15:44:05 MST 2008


Well, I have been using Analytics, but I forgot that I could check by
OS to determine the percentage with GA. I guess I just needed someone
else to give me a push to look deeper into GA.

Thanks,
Craig

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Caleb Call <caleb at macjunk.net> wrote:
> UserAgent will tell you but like thebigdog already said, GA is a great tool
> and it's free.  Plus you will get lots of other stats to go with what
> browsers are being used too.
>
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> On Dec 12, 2008, at 3:32 PM, Craig Jackson wrote:
>
>> UPHPU,
>> I am interested in seeing if that many visitors to my sites are from
>> mobile phones. If there is a big enough percentage, then the sites
>> should probably get some tweaks to make sure they are visually
>> appealing for mobile phone visitors, as well.
>>
>> Which leads to my question of what is the best way to differentiate
>> visitors from normal sources to visitors from mobile phones? Is there
>> an analytics system already available that does this? Can I pop in
>> some PHP or Javascript magic? Or, can I determine this through the
>> Apache log by grabbing User Agent info?
>>
>> Thanks for any info,
>> Craig Jackson
>>
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