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Reports my IE11 in modern mode as IE7.

I'm guessing it's because of the "trident" and "7.0" in the user agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Trident/7.0; Touch; rv:11.0) like Gecko

I've noticed a ton of sites that misdetect IE in this way. MS's attempt to 'improve' their UA string seems to have done more harm than good.

Here's what we use at StatCounter when compiling Global Stats data:

Can you check if that detects your IE11 correctly?

Yes, statcounter does detect it correctly.

For me it correctly reports it as IE11. I am also using it in modern mode and have the exact same user agent string.