# No content on homepage for Googlebot **URL:** \ **Category:** Bug\ **Created:** [2016年三月16日 16:30 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-content-on-homepage-for-googlebot/41146 "2016-03-16T16:30:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DeanMarkTaylor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/deanmarktaylor/32/102462_2.png) [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)\ **Post date:** [2016年三月16日 16:30 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-content-on-homepage-for-googlebot/41146/1 "2016-03-16T16:30:14Z")
Currently there doesn’t appear to be any content output in the `#main-outlet` element for Googlebot: ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/8/9/8912a3355b5c6f5eddbb7036e18732417dd6c823.png) HTML for reference: ```html Discourse Meta
``` I would expect the latest list of topics for meta. ---
**Author:** ![eviltrout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/eviltrout/32/5275_2.png) [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)\ **Post date:** [2016年三月16日 17:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-content-on-homepage-for-googlebot/41146/2 "2016-03-16T17:56:24Z")
How did you set the user agent of Googlebot? My Chrome doesn’t have that choice and I wonder if it’s related. ---
**Author:** ![Alankrit\_Choudh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/alankrit_choudh/32/119698_2.png) [@Alankrit\_Choudh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Alankrit_Choudh)\ **Post date:** [2016年三月16日 17:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-content-on-homepage-for-googlebot/41146/3 "2016-03-16T17:59:42Z")
Chrome 扩展—— > **[User-Agent Switcher for Chrome - Chrome Web Store](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/user-agent-switcher-for-c/djflhoibgkdhkhhcedjiklpkjnoahfmg)** > > Spoofs & Mimics User-Agent strings. 我目前正在使用它，结果尚可。 ![YoPtLeF](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/0/6/f/06fed43902e0c1c46e6e441a0ec42d5b013e614d.png) ---
**Author:** ![DeanMarkTaylor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/deanmarktaylor/32/102462_2.png) [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)\ **Post date:** [2016年三月16日 18:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-content-on-homepage-for-googlebot/41146/4 "2016-03-16T18:09:56Z")
As per this post: > [@Updating the smartphone user-agent of Googlebot](https://meta.discourse.org/t/updating-the-smartphone-user-agent-of-googlebot/41112): > > Next month Google will be updating the smartphone user-agent of Googlebot: [https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2016/03/updating-smartphone-user-agent-of.html](https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2016/03/updating-smartphone-user-agent-of.html) Reviewing the code-base it doesn’t look like it’s going to make a blindest bit of difference to Discourse. Someone might possibily want to add the new user-agent here: [https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/spec/components/crawler\_detection\_spec.rb](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/spec/components/crawler_detection_spec.rb) Current Googlebot smartphone user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 8… I added a “custom device” to Google Chrome dev tools using the newly proposed Googlebot smartphone user agent for mobile: ```plaintext Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2272.96 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) ``` ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/b/1/b11d002b5bfae00676cc294879a4931d7aed9cea.png) ---
**Author:** ![eviltrout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/eviltrout/32/5275_2.png) [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)\ **Post date:** [2016年三月16日 18:13 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-content-on-homepage-for-googlebot/41146/5 "2016-03-16T18:13:33Z")
Huh interesting, I can reproduce it while in incognito. Looking into it. ---
**Author:** ![DeanMarkTaylor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/deanmarktaylor/32/102462_2.png) [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)\ **Post date:** [2016年三月16日 18:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-content-on-homepage-for-googlebot/41146/6 "2016-03-16T18:16:01Z")
I found this because I was running this new Mobile Friendly Google Tool against my Discourse instance: > **[Introduction to Lighthouse  |  Chrome for Developers](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/lighthouse/overview/)** > > Learn how to set up Lighthouse to audit your web apps. I was expecting the output to be clunky - but expected topic results. ---
**Author:** ![eviltrout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/eviltrout/32/5275_2.png) [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)\ **Post date:** [2016年三月16日 18:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-content-on-homepage-for-googlebot/41146/7 "2016-03-16T18:37:12Z")
Looks like it’s a combination of mobile + Googlebot. We had an optimization to never render the `