Exclude Mobile Traffic

[golffinder]

Hi

 

how can i easily exclude mobile traffic without having to enter endless amounts of user agents into the "client useragent" delivery limitations box?

[Dave Brain]

Hi, 

 

You need to do customization on default plugins which used to store impressions, clicks and conversions. On that, Use PHP library files to detect mobile devices, if its mobile device and skip to log the traffic on table. 

[golffinder]

i'm not trying to exclude mobile stats, i'm trying to exclude a banner from being delivered to a mobile devise when visiting the site.

[Dave Brain]

We can skip ads deliver on mobiles devices by changing the delivery section files. Apply that PHP library code to detect mobile device and you will get it work. If you have developing skills and Spend some time and you can get this done easily. 

[Gizmo]

so no easy way to do this?

 

definetely something that should be added in the next version

[Gizmo]

found something on http://forum.revive-adserver.com/topic/517-how-to-display-ads-to-desktop-users-only/

 

still easy select buttons for desktop or mobile, would be great

[Bobbins]

We have managed to achieve this, It is via the limations box but we done all the work for you .  by doing the following.

 

1. Goto banner you do not want on mobile site.

2. Goto delivery options and add the following limitation: Client - Useragent

3.  Add this value: /Mobile|iP(hone|od|ad)|Android|BlackBerry|IEMobile|Kindle|NetFront|Silk-Accelerated|(hpw|web)OS|Fennec|Minimo|Opera M(obi|ini)|Blazer|Dolfin|Dolphin|Skyfire|Zune/  This will cover 98% of mobile users. Enter it exactly how it is above even with / at the beginning and end. The remaining 2% will be mobile users that have pre historic OS so any website built after 2004 wouldnt load of this type of device anyways so no worries in covering them.

4. Delete certain cache files to make change's instant or wait 20mins.

 

Location of cache files: var/cache

Files to remove: anything that starts with deliverycache_

 

Hope that helps

[murphybeck]

User Agent detection is not a recommended technique for modern web apps. You can use JavaScript window.matchMedia() method to detect a mobile device based on the CSS media query.

if (window.matchMedia("(max-width: 767px)").matches)
{
// The viewport is less than 768 pixels wide
document.write("This is a mobile device.");
}

Another approach would be a responsive media query. You could presume that a mobile phone has a screen size greater than x and less than y. 

For example:

@media only screen and (min-width: 320px) and (max-width: 600px) {}

You may also use navigator.userAgentData.mobile .

const isMobile = navigator.userAgentData.mobile;

 

[stephan]

I made a patch for this use case:

https://github.com/revive-adserver/revive-adserver/pull/1342

[Janvi Arora]

To exclude mobile traffic we normally add filters in the dashboard.

As per the discussion we just need to avoid the banners displayed on mobile devices.

Then above mentioned patch of information will be very helpful.

Just by adding few plugins we can easily avoid the mobile displayed banners.