Google has added a brand new consumer agent to the listing of Google crawlers, Googlebots. This one is called Google-InspectionTool and goes underneath each the Googlebot consumer agent and likewise 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 End result Check 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 embrace:

• 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 (appropriate; Google-InspectionTool/1.0)
• Desktop
  
  Mozilla/5.0 (appropriate; Google-InspectionTool/1.0)

John Mueller from Google notified me of this on Mastodon when he mentioned “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.