Googlebot (Smartphone)

Googlebot (Smartphone) is assigned to the Search category by BotScope. Detection is based on the user-agent string. Current pattern:

(?=.*Googlebot(?![-/]Image|[-/]Video|[-/]News))(?=.*Mobile).*

⭐ Googlebot (Smartphone) is the primary crawler for the Google index. Since the full transition to Mobile-First Indexing, ALL ranking decisions are based on the smartphone version of your page. If this bot encounters problems (5xx errors, blocked resources, slow response times), your entire organic visibility suffers. The single most important bot signature in your logs.

Search engine crawlers index publicly available content for their results. They typically fetch /robots.txt first and respect crawl-delay and Disallow rules. High crawl frequency usually correlates with good visibility in those search results.

BotScope aggregates every Googlebot (Smartphone) request in your session: which URLs it prefers, how many 4xx/5xx responses it gets, whether it crawls from one or many IPs, and what time window it's particularly active in.

robots.txt directive for Googlebot (Smartphone)

If you don't want Googlebot (Smartphone) to crawl your site, add the following block to your /robots.txt. This works only for bots that honour robots.txt — malicious crawlers ignore it.