{"id":25104,"date":"2019-10-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/updating-the-user-agent-of-googlebot\/"},"modified":"2019-10-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T00:00:00","slug":"updating-the-user-agent-of-googlebot","status":"publish","type":"ar_kb","link":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/updating-the-user-agent-of-googlebot\/","title":{"rendered":"Updating the user agent of Googlebot"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"key-point\">It&#8217;s been a while since we published this blog post. Some of the information may be outdated (for example, some images may be missing, and some links may not work anymore). For up-to-date information, check out our documentation about<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/google-crawlers\/#googlebot-smartphone\">our various crawlers<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/aside>\n<p class=\"gargardate\">Wednesday, October 02, 2019<\/p>\n<p>\n  Googlebot uses a Chrome-based browser to render webpages, as<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/the-new-evergreen-googlebot\/\">we announced at Google I\/O<\/a> earlier<br \/>\n  this year. As part of this, in December 2019 we&#8217;ll update Googlebot&#8217;s user agent strings to<br \/>\n  reflect the new browser version, and periodically update the version numbers to match Chrome<br \/>\n  updates in Googlebot.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  See <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/google-crawlers\/\">Google crawlers (user agents)<\/a><br \/>\n  and<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/fix-javascript-problems\/\">Make sure Google can index JavaScript<\/a><br \/>\n  for background reading about user agent strings and rendering.\n<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"googlebot-user-agents-today\" tabindex=\"-1\">Googlebot user agents today<\/h2>\n<p>\n  <b>Mobile:<\/b><br \/>\n  <br \/>\n  <code>Mozilla\/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build\/MMB29P) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/<b>41.0.2272.96<\/b> Mobile Safari\/537.36 (compatible; Googlebot\/2.1; +https:\/\/www.google.com\/bot.html)<\/code>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <b>Desktop:<\/b><br \/>\n  <br \/>\n  <code>Mozilla\/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot\/2.1; +https:\/\/www.google.com\/bot.html)<\/code>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <i>OR<\/i>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <code>Mozilla\/5.0 AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Googlebot\/2.1; +https:\/\/www.google.com\/bot.html) Safari\/537.36<\/code>\n<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"the-new-evergreen-googlebot-and-its-user-agent\" tabindex=\"-1\">The new evergreen Googlebot and its user agent<\/h2>\n<p>\n  In December we&#8217;ll start periodically updating the above user agent strings to reflect the version<br \/>\n  of Chrome used in Googlebot. In the following user agent strings,<br \/>\n  <code>W.X.Y.Z<\/code> will be substituted with the<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chromium.org\/developers\/version-numbers\" class=\"external-link\">Chrome version<\/a><br \/>\n  we&#8217;re using. For example, instead of <code>W.X.Y.Z<\/code> you&#8217;ll see something similar to<br \/>\n  <code>76.0.3809.100<\/code>. This version number will update on a regular basis.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <b>Mobile:<\/b><br \/>\n  <br \/>\n  <code>Mozilla\/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build\/MMB29P) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/<b>W.X.Y.Z<\/b> Mobile Safari\/537.36 (compatible; Googlebot\/2.1; +https:\/\/www.google.com\/bot.html)<\/code>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <b>Desktop:<\/b><br \/>\n  <br \/>\n  <code>Mozilla\/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot\/2.1; +https:\/\/www.google.com\/bot.html)<\/code>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <i>OR<\/i>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <code>Mozilla\/5.0 AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Googlebot\/2.1; +https:\/\/www.google.com\/bot.html) Chrome\/<b>W.X.Y.Z<\/b> Safari\/537.36<\/code>\n<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"how-to-test-your-site\" tabindex=\"-1\">How to test your site<\/h2>\n<p>\n  We&#8217;ve run an evaluation, so are confident that most websites will not be affected by the change.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Sites that follow our recommendations to use feature detection and progressive enhancement instead<br \/>\n  of user agent sniffing should continue to work without any changes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  If your site looks for a specific user agent, it may be affected. You should use feature detection<br \/>\n  instead of user agent sniffing. If you cannot use feature detection and need to detect Googlebot<br \/>\n  via the user agent, then look for &#8220;Googlebot&#8221; within the user agent.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Some common issues we saw while evaluating this change include:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n    Pages that present an error message instead of normal page contents. For example, a page may<br \/>\n    assume Googlebot is a user with an ad-blocker, and accidentally prevent it from accessing page<br \/>\n    contents.\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n    Pages that redirect to a roboted or noindex document.\n  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n  If you&#8217;re not sure if your site is affected or not, you can try loading your webpage in your<br \/>\n  browser using the new Googlebot user agent.<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/web\/tools\/chrome-devtools\/device-mode\/override-user-agent\" class=\"external-link\">These instructions<\/a><br \/>\n  show how to override your user agent in Chrome.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  If you have any questions, be sure to reach out to our<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/community\" class=\"external-link\">webmaster help community<\/a>,<br \/>\n  join our<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/webmasters\/connect\" class=\"external-link\">webmaster office hours on YouTube<\/a> v\u0259 ya<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/googlesearchc\" class=\"external-link\">follow us on Twitter<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-author\">\n  Posted by Zoe Clifford, Software Engineer in the Web Rendering Service team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since we published this blog post. Some of the information may be outdated (for example, some images may be missing, and some links may not work anymore). For up-to-date information, check out our documentation about our various crawlers. 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