Saturday, 3 April 2010

Google' Wireless Transcoder

I was looking at recent hits on ExtremeTracking and realised the big "G" was not a visit by Google Bot but a visit using Google' Wireless Transcoder. Not knowing what Google Wireless Transcoder was I looked it up, and found out that it is a way of rendering of websites to obtain the essential information, making them suited for display on a PDA.

Although I do not have a PDA I decided to have a play with Google' Wireless Transcoder, its URL is here. Steves Stats is a site I obviously tried:





Much simplified, but all the information is available.

From the above visit, how did the verious counters register Google Wireless Transcoder:

1. No Icon. Hence, nothing registered:

ShinyStats
BraveNet
BelStats
SiteMeter
24Log

2. Icon, but nothing registered:

Motigo

3. Browser identified as Safari:

GoSats (Safari 52513)
GetClicky (Safari 3.1)

4. Visit registered as Google Bot:

OneStat

5. Correctly identified as Google Wireless Transcoder:

StatCounter
W3
ExtremeTracking

From the user agent it becomes apparent why it is mistaken for Safari:

Mozilla/5.0_(en-us)_AppleWebKit/525.13_(KHTML,_like_Gecko;_Google_Wireless_Transcoder)_Version/3.1_Safari/525.13
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  1. Anonymous21 April 2010 at 23:35

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  3. Alberto P.13 March 2011 at 06:12

    I visited your webpage with

    Gecko: Firefox 3.6.15, Icecat 3.5.6, Conkeror, Fennec 1, Galeon 2.0.7, Seamonkey 2.0.11
    text browsers: w3m, links2, elinks, lynx, xlinks2.
    Opera 11.01.
    Konqueror 4.3.5
    Webkit: Chromium 11.0.695.0 and 12.0.703.0, Arora 0.10.1, Epiphany , Midori 0.2.6, NetSurf 1.2, Other: Amaya 11.3.1, dilllo.
    i have a lot of web browsers through wine but they don't show anything relevant.
    I have Chrome, Srware iron, swiftewasel and more fun browsers but i'm tired. Other day i will do a review visiting from 10 minutes in order to now which browser is what in the stats. Keep the work.

    greetings
    Alberto

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