<b>Smartphone vs desktop Googlebot in your logs</b>

<b>Smartphone vs desktop Googlebot in your logs</b>

Mobile-first indexing means the smartphone crawler should dominate your logs. References to check the split.

→ Google's crawler overview — the exact smartphone vs desktop Googlebot UA strings.
Takeaway: 'Googlebot/2.1' with a mobile token is the one that matters now.

⭐ Pick of the week: the ratio check many SEOs run — grep both UAs, compare counts.
<code>grep -c 'Mobile.*Googlebot' access.log</code> vs the desktop variant.
Takeaway: heavy desktop-crawler share can signal you're not seen as mobile-first.

→ Search Engine Journal's explainer on reading the mobile-first shift in logs.

→ Google's note that desktop crawling continues at low volume — so it's a ratio, not zero.

Credit to Google Search Central and SEJ.

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