{"id":24929,"date":"2016-03-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/updating-the-smartphone-user-agent-of-googlebot\/"},"modified":"2016-03-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T00:00:00","slug":"updating-the-smartphone-user-agent-of-googlebot","status":"publish","type":"ar_kb","link":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/updating-the-smartphone-user-agent-of-googlebot\/","title":{"rendered":"Updating the smartphone 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 Some of the information may be outdated (for example, some images may be missing, and some links may not work anymore).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\">Tuesday, March 15, 2016<\/p>\n<aside class=\"note\"><b>Update on April 20, 2016<\/b>: This change is now live.<\/aside>\n<p>\n  As technology on the web changes, we periodically update the user agents we use for Googlebot.<br \/>\n  Next month, we will be updating the smartphone <code>user-agent<\/code> of Googlebot:\n<\/p>\n<p>Googlebot smartphone <code>user-agent<\/code> starting from April 18, 2016:<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Today, we use the following smartphone <code>user-agent<\/code> for Googlebot:<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\n  We&#8217;re updating the <code>user-agent<\/code> string so that our renderer can better understand pages<br \/>\n  that use newer web technologies. Our renderer evolves over time and the <code>user-agent<\/code><br \/>\n  string indicates that it is becoming more similar to Chrome than Safari. To make sure your site<br \/>\n  can be viewed properly by a wide range of users and browsers, we recommend using<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.html5rocks.com\/en\/tutorials\/detection\/\" class=\"external-link\">feature detection<\/a><br \/>\n  and progressive enhancement.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Our evaluation suggests that this user-agent change should have no effect on 99% of sites. The<br \/>\n  most common reason a site might be affected is if it specifically looks for a particular Googlebot<br \/>\n  <code>user-agent<\/code> string. User agent sniffing for Googlebot is not recommended and is<br \/>\n  considered to be a form of <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/spam-policies\/#cloaking\">cloaking<\/a>.<br \/>\n  Googlebot should be treated like any other browser.<\/p>\n<p>\n  If you believe your site may be affected by this update, we recommend checking your site with the<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/webmasters\/tools\/googlebot-fetch\" class=\"external-link\">Fetch and Render Tool<\/a><br \/>\n  in Search Console (which has been updated with the new <code>user-agent<\/code> string) or by<br \/>\n  changing the <code>user-agent<\/code> string in Developer Tools in your browser (for example, via<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/web\/tools\/chrome-devtools\/iterate\/device-mode\" class=\"external-link\">Chrome Device Mode<\/a>).<br \/>\n  If you have any questions, we&#8217;re always happy to answer them in our<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/community\" class=\"external-link\">Webmaster help forums<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-author\">Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/kikeg\/\" class=\"external-link\">Katsuaki Ikegami <span>(\u6c60\u4e0a \u514b\u660e)<\/span><\/a>, Software Engineer<\/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. Tuesday, March 15, 2016 Update on April 20, 2016: This change is now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"menu_order":83125,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ar_kb_kategori":[665],"ar_kb_etiket":[],"class_list":["post-24929","ar_kb","type-ar_kb","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ar_kb_kategori-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb\/24929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ar_kb"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb\/24929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ar_kb_kategori","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb_kategori?post=24929"},{"taxonomy":"ar_kb_etiket","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb_etiket?post=24929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}