This page helps to search for new UserAgent’s in the system statistics and classify them as a browser or a search engine.

Classifying a UserAgent as a browser means that from now on this UserAgent will be excluded from the search results on this page. All the site visitors entering the site with this UserAgent string will be treated as common visitors: they will have their own profiles, sessions, hits, advertising campaign clicks and events recorded.

Classifying a UserAgent as a search engine results in registering all hits with this UserAgent as the search crawler visit with the sole purpose to only index the site contents. Such hits will be treated as the search engine hits; the only records that will be created are the addresses of the indexed pages.

General recommendations

• If the UserAgent is unfamiliar to you, first try to search for this UserAgent in the Internet before classifying it.
• Pay special attention to the length and uniqueness of the search engine wildcard you are about to add. Otherwise, the wildcard may match browser and all visitors with this UserAgent will be recorded as search engines.
• If the UserAgent contains occurrences of bot, robot or crawler, it is much likely a search engine robot (for example: Googlebot).
• If the UserAgent is a downloader software, it should be treated as a browser, otherwise the file download events will not be recorded.
• If the UserAgent is an offline browsing software, it should be treated as a browser.
• If the UserAgent is a web content retrieving software, it should be treated as a browser.
• If the UserAgent is undefined, the best choice is to not classify it.

Filter

Parameter	Description
UserAgent*	UserAgent of the site visitor
Only for today	Specifies whether to display UserAgent's detected today, or all.
Sessions	Filters records by the number of sessions (number of visits with the specific UserAgent).

* - These fields allow using Boolean expressions. You can get information on the syntax by clicking on the symbol "?" next to the field. For exact matching searches using this field, mark the corresponding checkbox.

Click Set filter to activate the filter. To display all information, click Cancel.

Table

Checkbox column	UserAgent	Sessions	Mask	Search engine	Browser
[1]	[2]	[3]	[4]	[5]	[6]
Selected:[7]	Checked: [8]

1. Select here UserAgent's to which an action is to be applied.
2. The unknown UserAgent.
3. Number of sessions with this UserAgent.
4. Mask for the search engine or the browser to be added. The mask allows the following wildcards: % - 0 or more characters; _ (underscore) – any one character.
5. Select to classify the UserAgent as a search engine.
6. Select to classify the UserAgent as a browser.
7. Number of found unknown UserAgent’s.
8. Number of UserAgent's marked in [1] to be added. 

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