Posted by awinter 40 weeks 6 days ago
I'm just making this post to ask a question about how reliable the robot detection is for DeviceAtlas. I'm currently developing another site here in Japan and I was running through a few test UA's one of them being a google-mobile bot and while the test UA is being detected as a phone it's not coming up as a robot.
Here is the test UA. This is an actual google UA that hits my Japanese sites consistently.
DoCoMo/1.0/N505i/c20/TB/W20H10 (compatible; Googlebot-Mobile/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
And here is a list of the data returned by the PHP API for DeviceAtlas:
Array
(
[isFeedReader] => 0
[isChecker] => 0
[isSpam] => 0
[isBrowser] => 0
[isDownloader] => 0
[isFilter] => 0
[mobileDevice] => 1
[isRobot] => 0
[image.Gif87] => 1
[id] => 208592
[https] => 1
[memoryLimitMarkup] => 20000
[markup.xhtmlMp10] => 1
[image.Jpg] => 1
[usableDisplayWidth] => 240
[usableDisplayHeight] => 202
[jsr139] => 1
[vendor] => DoCoMo
[model] => N505i
[displayWidth] => 240
[displayHeight] => 270
[displayColorDepth] => 18
[_matched] => DoCoMo/1.0/N505
[_unmatched] => i/c20/TB/W20H10 (compatible; Googlebot-Mobile/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
)
As you can see isRobot is set to 0 while the UA is clearly from Google. Any ideas why this might be happening?




Posted by atrasatti 39 weeks ago
Mobile Genius
Thank you for the pointer, it should be in the JSON file tomorrow.
Andrea TrasattiDeviceAtlas, mobile device intelligence