diff --git a/AGENTS.md b/AGENTS.md
index 46b056c..d78adc9 100644
--- a/AGENTS.md
+++ b/AGENTS.md
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Pagerite is a CMS. See `docs` for the full design and implementation details. Ke
   - `markdown.py` — markdown-it-py renderer.
   - `views.py` — shared page layout and rendering; theme/user-font resolution across `THEME_DIRS` / `FONT_DIRS` (cwd, site, platform data roots, then built-in `pagerite/themes/`, see `docs/themes-and-assets.md`).
   - `seed.py` — demo content, written only on first database creation.
-  - `analytics.py` — visit analytics collection (see `docs/analytics.md`).
+  - `analytics.py` — visit analytics collection (see `docs/analytics.md`). UA formatting/bot detection comes from the **uarite** package.
 - `frontend/src/` — Vue editor and public-page JS entries.
   - `main.js` — Vue editor app entry.
   - `analytics-main.js` — analytics page entry (mounts `AnalyticsView` at `/_a`).
diff --git a/docs/analytics.md b/docs/analytics.md
index f9d4d62..b130efe 100644
--- a/docs/analytics.md
+++ b/docs/analytics.md
@@ -63,8 +63,13 @@ Each `Client` record (shared by every event, keyed by hash):
   when a database is available,
 - `city` — city name from the DB-IP MMDB lookup, when available,
 - `ua` — raw `User-Agent` string,
-- `ua_pretty` — compact display form of the UA (browser/OS/device) when
-  parsable, otherwise the raw string,
+- `ua_pretty` — compact display form of the UA from `uarite.uaparse()`:
+  the crawler name for bots, with a category suffix only where a provider
+  runs crawlers of more than one kind (`GPTBot (AI)` vs
+  `OAI-SearchBot (search)`, `Googlebot (search)` vs `Google-Extended (AI)`;
+  single-kind providers stay plain: `Facebook`, `WhatsApp`), `Browser/major OS` on the desktop, the device where that is
+  the relevant information (iPhone reports its iOS version, Android
+  phones their model instead of the OS), otherwise the raw string,
 - `hide` — true for admin clients (`hide` message field): everything this
   client ever did is recorded but excluded from every statistic and from the
   viewer payload.  This is the one flag set at record time — it is a client
@@ -169,7 +174,9 @@ for misses.
   `_CRAWLER_TIMEOUT` (10 s) is a crawler hit — plain bots that only fetch
   documents never register as visits. JS-running crawlers (Googlebot,
   GoogleOther, Applebot, ...) do connect and send messages, but their UA
-  gives them away (`_is_bot_ua`): their messages are ignored at display
+  gives them away (`_is_bot_ua`, backed by `uarite.uaparse` — which
+  also knows the disguised ones: facebookexternalhit, Google-Extended,
+  WhatsApp, ...): their messages are ignored at display
   time, so their GETs never match and land in the crawler list too. Real-
   browser bots whose UA does not match are caught by engagement: a visit
   whose total reported reading time is under 5 seconds (`_MIN_VISIT_READ`;
diff --git a/pagerite/analytics.py b/pagerite/analytics.py
index a5199b0..78a1306 100644
--- a/pagerite/analytics.py
+++ b/pagerite/analytics.py
@@ -60,32 +60,17 @@ from urllib.parse import parse_qs, urlencode, urlparse
 
 import blake3
 import msgspec
-from ua_parser import parse
+import uarite
 
 
 def _compact_user_agent(ua: str) -> str:
     """Format a User-Agent string into a compact display form.
 
-    Returns the original UA when the parser cannot identify the browser/OS.
+    See ``uarite.uaparse``: crawler name (with category) for bots,
+    ``Browser/major OS`` or the device for real browsers, the raw UA when
+    unrecognized.
     """
-    if not ua or not ua.strip() or ua == "-":
-        return ""
-    r = parse(ua)
-    browser = r.user_agent.family if r.user_agent else None
-    ver = r.user_agent.major if r.user_agent else ""
-    os_name = r.os.family if r.os else None
-    dev = r.device.family if r.device else None
-    if browser in (None, "Other") and os_name in (None, "Other"):
-        return ua
-    if browser and browser != "Other":
-        browser = browser.split()[0]
-    else:
-        browser = ""
-    os_name = os_name if os_name and os_name != "Other" else ""
-    if dev in (None, "Other") or dev == browser:
-        dev = ""
-    parts = [f"{browser}/{ver}" if browser else "", os_name, dev]
-    return " ".join(p for p in parts if p).strip()
+    return uarite.uaparse(ua).pretty
 
 
 class Ping(msgspec.Struct, omit_defaults=True):
@@ -418,17 +403,22 @@ _MIN_VISIT_READ = 5
 _FAVICON_RETRY = timedelta(days=7)
 
 #: UAs of JS-running crawlers, which would register as visitors on their
-#: activity messages.  Anything calling itself a "bot" or "spider" matches;
-#: known crawlers without those tokens (GoogleOther) are listed as extra
-#: alternates.  No source verification: a spoofed bot UA just lands in the
-#: crawler list, and scanners that probe telltale paths are caught by the
-#: abuse rules anyway.
-_BOT_UA = re.compile(r"bot|spider|googleother", re.IGNORECASE)
+#: activity messages.  ``uarite`` knows the common crawlers
+#: and link-preview fetchers (including disguised ones such as
+#: facebookexternalhit and Google-Extended) plus any UA with a
+#: bot/spider/crawler/scanner token.  No source verification: a spoofed
+#: bot UA just lands in the crawler list, and scanners that probe
+#: telltale paths are caught by the abuse rules anyway.
 
 
 def _is_bot_ua(ua: str) -> bool:
-    """True when the UA claims a crawler identity (bot or spider)."""
-    return bool(_BOT_UA.search(ua))
+    """True when the UA is not a regular browser.
+
+    Every real browser registers as ``kind == "browser"``; anything else
+    (recognized crawler/previewer, generic bot token, or an unclassified
+    HTTP client such as httpx) is not a visitor.
+    """
+    return uarite.uaparse(ua).kind != "browser"
 
 
 #: Plain-404 count per IP within ``_ABUSE_404_WINDOW`` that classifies it as
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 215f3ae..0796c98 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "platformdirs>=4.11.5",
     "pygments>=2.20.0",
     "python-slugify>=8.0.4",
-    "ua-parser>=1.0.2",
+    "uarite>=0.1.2",
     "zstandard>=0.25.0",
 ]