What Is My User Agent?
Your complete browser fingerprint — browser version, operating system, rendering engine, screen resolution, timezone, and more — exactly as web servers and APIs see you.
What is a user agent?
A user agent is a string that your browser sends with every HTTP request, identifying itself to web servers. It includes information about your browser name and version, operating system, and rendering engine. Web servers use this to serve appropriate content, while developers use it for analytics, compatibility testing, and debugging.
What does a user agent string look like?
A typical Chrome user agent on Windows looks like: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36. Despite looking like it says "Mozilla" and "Safari", this is Chrome — the format is a historical artifact of browser compatibility.
Why would I need my user agent?
- Debugging browser-specific issues in web applications
- Testing how a server responds to different browsers
- Verifying what device type a server detects you as
- Configuring tools that require a specific user agent format
- Checking if your browser identifies itself correctly after updates
User agent questions
navigator JavaScript API. No data is sent to our servers. Your user agent string never leaves your device.