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Premium Device Detection Data is now available to download.

The ability to detect mobile devices is an important part of website and web application design. Over the last year, requests to sites from mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones have risen to almost 20% of total web traffic. As well as this, dozens of new devices with varying screen sizes, input methods and capabilities are released onto the market all the time. Keeping up with this diversity is a nessecery but difficult task for any organisation maintaining a presence on the web. A good solution is to use a Device Description Repository to detect mobile devices through the browser header and its User Agent. 51Degrees.mobi's professionally maintained device data makes this process easy to implement and stays current through automatic updates.

51Degrees.mobi has been selected as a finalist in the Mobile Entertainment Awards. Here is why we think we should win!

EE released their 'double speed' 4G in the UK earlier this month and showed off their new 'shared 4G plans'. This week 51Degrees take a look at how the percentage of mobile devices that browse the web with 4G capabilities.

EE released their 'double speed' 4G in the UK earlier this month and showed off their new 'shared 4G plans'. This week 51Degrees take a look at how the percentage of mobile devices that browse the web with 4G capabilities.

IIS has had a long running problem where Dynamic Compression overwrites the Vary Header, making effective caching almost impossible. This can now be fixed using the Vary Header modules from 51Degrees.

With Kantar showing that sales for Windows Phone in Australia have declined, 51Degrees take a look at how mobile web traffic from Windows Phone devices has changed over the last 18 months.

Premium Device Detection Data is now available to download.

To celebrate Apple iPhones 6th birthday, 51Degrees take a look at how Apple smartphones are performing up against Samsung smartphones during last month across the world.

We're highlighting the importance of good web site performance on mobile phones by launching our competition to find the web's heaviest site.

We want to you to think about mobile web performance, and to share your thoughts with friends and colleagues. That's why there's a $1000 prize for the heaviest web site entered, and a $300 prize draw for sharing the competition. The heaviest 5 web sites will be given a free copy of 51Degrees.mobi tools. How will your web site perform?