Google PageSpeed Insights
Google PageSpeed Insights is a site monitor run by Google Inc..
- Operator
- Google Inc.
- Type
- Site Monitor
- Official page
- developers.google.com
- In Vireo
- Excluded, reported under Uptime monitors
User agent
Requests from Google PageSpeed Insights carry a user agent like this:
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_0_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/537.4 (KHTML, like Gecko; Google Page Speed Insights) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8A306 Safari/6531.22.7Device Detector identifies it with this pattern (a case-insensitive regular expression):
Google Page Speed InsightsAnyone can put any name in a user agent. Where the operator publishes IP ranges, checking the request's address against them is the way to confirm a visit is genuine.
How Vireo counts Google PageSpeed Insights
Vireo keeps requests from Google PageSpeed Insights out of your pageviews and visitors and counts them on its bot report under Uptime monitors, so you can see how much it left out rather than wonder why your server logs show more traffic.
Checked by running Vireo Analytics' own bot filter over Google PageSpeed Insights's user agents.
Sources
- Google PageSpeed Insights information page (developers.google.com)
- Matomo Device Detector, bots.yml (LGPL-3.0)
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