User Agent
What is a user agent?
A user agent identifies your browser and provides certain system details to servers hosting the websites you visit in a string. This string indicates which browser you're using, its version number, and details about your system, such as operating system and version.
E.g.: User Agent 47.37.146.138 (USA) Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/62.0.3202.75 Safari/537.36
47.37.146.138 - shows the ip address of the user
USA - the country associated with the IP
Mozilla/5.0 - application name and version
Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6 - the operating system and version.
AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) - webkit based browser using engine version 537.36 that behaves uses KHTML engine that behaves like Gecko
Chrome/62.0.3202.75 Safari/537.36 - web browser used by user was Google Chrome 62, which is also compatible with Safari version 537.36
This is a handy tool to understand your browser's user agent string: https://developers.whatismybrowser.com/useragents/parse/
To understand more about the components in the string, see this wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_agent
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