Request: Show Browser Engine Version

[pbb72]

Currently, Matomo reports Browser usage (optionally with version number) and Browser Engine (Blink, WebKit, Trident, Gecko, etc) usage.

Regrettably, the browser engine information is relatively useless without also knowing the relevant version number. I can't use the browser version numbers, because on iOS all browsers use the WebKit rendering engine, making the browser version number irrelevant for all browsers but Safari.

Summary

Could it be possible to provide a Browser Engine Version table just like we have a Browser Version table?

Your Environment

• Matomo version: 4.13.3
• MySQL version: 8.0.31
• PHP version: 8.1.20

[sgiehl]

Matomo currently does not store the browser engine version. Therefore it's not easily possible to add that. Device detector should already be able to detect that, so it's about adding a new dimension to store the data and according reports. I doubt this will be implemented in core any time soon, as there hadn't been many requests around that topic and there is more important stuff to do at the moment. But this could be easily handled in a custom plugin. So if you are keen, you could try to build you own plugin doing that.

[pbb72]

I've created a custom visit dimension filled with the following Custom JS variable, so far this seems to work well:

function () {
    ua=window.navigator.userAgent;
    if(r=/edge\/(\d+)/i.exec(ua))return 'EdgeHTML '+r[1];
    if(r=/edga?\/(\d+)/i.exec(ua))return 'Blink '+r[1];
    if(r=/firefox\/(\d+)/i.exec(ua))return 'Gecko '+r[1];
    if(r=/chrome\/(\d+)/i.exec(ua))return 'Blink '+r[1];
    if(r=/webkit\/(\d+)/i.exec(ua))return 'WebKit '+r[1];
    return '(unknown)';
}