When you review Azaz Statistics, you may see available information about countries, devices, browsers, and other characteristics associated with activity on your links.
These statistics can help you understand general patterns in how your Azaz short links are being accessed.
What do country statistics mean?
Country statistics provide an approximate geographic indication associated with link activity when that information is available.
This can help you understand which countries appear to generate activity for your links.
Geographic information should be treated as approximate rather than as an exact physical location of a visitor.
How is a country determined?
Web services commonly estimate geographic location using technical information associated with an internet connection, such as an IP address.
This type of location information can be inaccurate or incomplete and should not be interpreted as a precise address or exact physical location.
Why can the country be incorrect?
The apparent country associated with a request may differ from the visitor's actual location for several reasons.
Examples include:
- VPN services
- Proxy servers
- Mobile carrier networks
- Corporate networks
- Privacy services
- Network routing
- Outdated or approximate IP-location information
Because of these factors, country statistics are best used to understand general patterns rather than determine exactly where a particular person is located.
What do device statistics mean?
Device statistics can help describe the general type of device associated with available link activity.
Depending on the information available, device categories may include:
- Desktop computers
- Mobile phones
- Tablets
- Other or unknown devices
These statistics can help you understand how your audience generally opens your links.
How can device statistics be useful?
If a large portion of your activity comes from mobile devices, for example, you may want to make sure your destination website works well on smaller screens.
If you share Azaz QR Codes, mobile activity may also be common because QR codes are frequently scanned using phones.
What do browser statistics mean?
Browser statistics describe the web browser associated with available link activity when that information can be determined.
Examples of browser families can include:
- Chrome
- Safari
- Firefox
- Edge
- Other or unknown browsers
The exact information available can depend on what the browser and device provide when accessing the link.
Why might a browser appear as unknown?
Browser information is not always complete or identifiable.
This can happen because of:
- Privacy protections
- Unusual or less common browsers
- Applications with built-in browsers
- Automated systems
- Modified browser information
- Limited information provided with the request
An unknown browser entry does not automatically indicate suspicious activity.
What about operating system statistics?
If operating system information is available in your statistics, it can provide a general indication of the software platform associated with a device.
Examples may include:
- Windows
- Android
- iOS
- macOS
- Linux
- Other or unknown platforms
As with browser and device information, these values depend on the technical information available during the request and may not always be exact.
Can these statistics identify a person?
Country, device, browser, and operating system statistics should not be treated as proof of a visitor's identity.
Many people can use the same type of device, browser, operating system, or network.
These statistics are more useful for understanding general traffic patterns than identifying individual visitors.
Can one person appear under different devices or browsers?
Yes. A person may open the same link from multiple devices or browsers.
For example, someone might open a link:
- On a phone
- Later on a computer
- Inside a social media application's browser
- Again using another browser
These requests may appear differently in your available statistics.
Can multiple people appear similar in statistics?
Yes. Different visitors can use the same device type, browser, operating system, network, or approximate location.
You should therefore avoid treating matching analytics characteristics as evidence that multiple clicks came from the same person.
Why are my country statistics different from another analytics tool?
Different analytics systems may use different data sources, classification methods, filtering, and processing rules.
Differences can also be caused by:
- VPNs and proxies
- Different IP-location databases
- Privacy technologies
- Different reporting periods
- Different time zones
- Bot filtering
- Different ways of counting activity
Azaz Statistics and another analytics service therefore should not automatically be expected to show identical geographic or technical data.
Why do device statistics differ from my destination analytics?
Azaz and the analytics system installed on your destination website observe activity at different stages.
Azaz receives activity associated with the short link, while destination analytics may collect information only after the destination page and its tracking software load successfully.
Different classification and filtering methods can also produce different results.
How can I use these statistics?
Country, device, and browser information can help you understand general trends associated with your links.
You might use these trends to:
- Check whether your website works well on commonly used devices
- Test your destination in commonly observed browsers
- Understand whether your audience appears primarily mobile or desktop
- Understand general geographic patterns
- Compare activity across different campaigns
Use separate links for different campaigns
If you want to compare traffic from different campaigns, consider creating separate Azaz short links for important sources or placements.
You can manage your links from My Links and review available activity through Azaz Statistics.
What about Bio Pages?
If you use Azaz Bio Pages, visitors may access your page and its links from many different devices and browsers.
Make sure your Bio Page and its important destinations work properly on both mobile and desktop devices.
Do privacy tools affect these statistics?
Yes. Browsers, VPNs, proxies, privacy tools, network configurations, and other technologies can limit or alter technical information associated with web requests.
As a result, some statistics may be unavailable, approximate, or categorized as unknown.
Protect visitor privacy
Use analytics information responsibly.
Do not treat approximate country, device, browser, or other technical information as definitive identification of a person.
For more information about how Azaz handles information, review the Azaz Privacy Policy.
Use Azaz responsibly
All Azaz links and their destinations must comply with the Azaz Terms of Service.
If you encounter an Azaz link being used for phishing, malware, scams, or another harmful purpose, use the Report page.
Need help?
If you have questions about the country, device, browser, or other information shown in your statistics, visit the Contact page.
When contacting Azaz, never send passwords, API keys, authentication tokens, or other private credentials.