{"id":4323,"date":"2021-09-21T11:02:40","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T11:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adspyglass.com\/blog\/glossary-user-agent\/"},"modified":"2021-09-28T15:14:21","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T15:14:21","slug":"user-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adspyglass.com\/blog\/user-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"User Agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>A user agent is a software element that acts on behalf of the user in a network service. Web browsers, email-readers, IRC clients, search robots can serve as examples of user agents. It is usually employed for using the information in order to carry out the following functions:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Improving email campaigns by adapting HTML emails to different devices.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Providing users with a relevant version of a particular website in case of using a mobile phone.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Defining whether a website is up-to-date or in need of any modification.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Collecting information for statistical objectives.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Performing content negotiation on the basis of the already acknowledged capabilities of a particular version of the software<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>There exists a division of user agents into types:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span><strong>Web browser. <\/strong><\/span><span>This is a software program used to access and view various websites.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><strong>Web application. <\/strong><\/span><span>This is a client-server application in which the client interacts with the web server using a browser.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><strong>Spider. <\/strong><\/span><span>This is an Internet bot that surfs the World Wide Web and conducts text indexing on different websites.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A user agent is a software element that acts on behalf of the user in a network service. 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