Identification of users in a mobile environment

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The need to analyze the number of users, their browser parameters, their path through the site is acute not only in the Web environment, but also in the WAP environment. According to all the laws of cosmogony, the WAP environment is now in the process of being streamlined after last year's "big bang". The need to determine the most frequently requested resources has come to the forefront, and if the company does business in the mobile environment, then determining the return of pages.
Despite pessimistic forecasts, the number of poland whatsapp data to WAP sites is steadily growing. Modern WAP resources are very different from their predecessors: they are more thought out, they contain more information, they are visited by more people. To determine what information is most popular, you need to either install a counter or analyze customer requests from applications that generate pages. Generally speaking, the second option is preferable, but it requires additional effort from programmers, so it is not worth considering. But the first option will satisfy the needs of most developers.
It is a little strange that WAP counter services are not yet available on the market (with the rare exception of experimental developments). There can be only one reason: the funds invested in the development of such a system may not return. Therefore, the capabilities of a hypothetical system that keeps track of mobile phone users requesting a particular page will be considered.
The simplest statistics that can be obtained are the number of visitors to a specific page of the site. The data is undoubtedly useful, but uninformative.
Somewhat more interesting data can be obtained by analyzing the type of mobile device from which the page request is made. The author's personal experience suggests that about 70% of requests are made not from WAP terminals, but from various emulators. This is understandable: the information is provided in a compressed form, without advertising and banners, and much faster. The fact that a user requests some data through an emulator does not mean that he will request it through his cell phone (if he has one at all). Based
on the data on the device model, you can find out the screen resolution, since in most devices it cannot be changed during navigation. The information obtained in this way can be used to determine the size of the images used and to position design elements on the page. On the other hand, it is often advisable to make several versions of the site (alas!), adapted for different devices.
Internet visitor accounting systems can determine the user's country of origin by IP address. Unfortunately, WAP terminal users can only be identified by the WAP gateway address, which can be located both in Russia and Madagascar. With a large number of free gateways, it is not possible to determine the visitor's country with certainty, but with access to the free gateway database, you can <cut off> visits from them and analyze only the gateways of cellular operators or WAP service providers (most often these are the same companies). The addresses of paid (or operator-specific) gateways can be used to judge the number of visitors from a particular country. Of course, the value of Russian-language information requested by an English-speaking user is small, but perhaps this can prompt the webmaster to think about creating an English-language version of the site.