Google has added a brand new consumer agent to the record of Google crawlers, Googlebots. This one is known as Google-InspectionTool and goes below each the Googlebot consumer agent and in addition the title Google-InspectionTool.
Google added this to the Google crawler assist doc over right here. It says, “Google-InspectionTool is the crawler utilized by Search testing instruments such because the Wealthy Consequence Take a look at and URL inspection in Search Console. Aside from the consumer agent and consumer agent token, it mimics Googlebot.”
The consumer agent tokens for that is each:
- Google-InspectionTool
- Googlebot
It additionally has two full consumer agent strings, one for desktop and one for cell, they embody:
- Cellular
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Construct/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Cellular Safari/537.36 (suitable; Google-InspectionTool/1.0) - Desktop
Mozilla/5.0 (suitable; Google-InspectionTool/1.0)
John Mueller from Google notified me of this on Mastodon when he stated “The replace is now full — the brand new user-agent names are in.”
Here’s a screenshot of the brand new sections that was added to the assistance doc:
Discussion board dialogue at Mastodon.