# No content on homepage for Googlebot

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-content-on-homepage-for-googlebot/41146>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [March 16, 2016, 4:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-content-on-homepage-for-googlebot/41146 "2016-03-16T16:30:14Z")\
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**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:** [March 16, 2016, 6:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-content-on-homepage-for-googlebot/41146/4 "2016-03-16T18:09:56Z")

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As per this post:

> [@Updating the smartphone user-agent of Googlebot](https://meta.discourse.org/t/updating-the-smartphone-user-agent-of-googlebot/41112):
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> 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)

```

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