We have an analytics platform for our clients to understand where people are interacting with our extension. We’d like to be able to break this down by mobile vs. desktop. As we don’t have access to the window object, we can’t reliably tell if a user is on mobile or not. What alternatives are ther…

Analytics for mobile vs. desktop traffic

Liam-Shopify July 7, 2025, 8:53am 3

Using navigator.userAgent would the only supported method for an extension to differentiate being rendered on mobile vs desktop currently.

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