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The user agent is a compatibility label your browser sends with every request โ messy because decades of history are baked into it.โฆ
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Sites combine three layers: what you declare (UA), what you support (features), and what you measure (viewport).โฆ
No single API says phone or desktop โ the verdict combines touch, screen, UA and client hints.โฆ
The version sits in the parsed user-agent row โ though privacy reduction may shorten it.โฆ
Device pixel ratio is how many physical pixels back each CSS pixel โ the reason text looks razor-sharp on phones.โฆ
Compare the screen row with the viewport row: one is your panel, the other is your window.โฆ
Only Chromium exposes even a rounded memory bucket โ and many installs hide that too.โฆ
Websites cannot read your CPU model โ but they can show core counts and architecture hints where the browser allows.โฆ
Your OS name comes from the user agent plus platform hints, and any device-info page shows it at the top of the report.โฆ
Browsers expose a deliberately limited subset: enough for sites to adapt, never enough to inventory your hardware.โฆ
Open a trusted checker page and read the live table your browser produces โ no app to install and nothing to guess.โฆ