Out of date user agent for PageSpeed Insights

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Daniel

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Feb 23, 2018, 5:58:06 AM2/23/18
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Hello,

I'm contacting this group in regards of the usage of an out of date user agent used by the PageSpeed Insights, which is:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.75 Safari/537.36 Google Favicon
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; Google Page Speed Insights) Chrome/41.0.2272.118 Mobile Safari/537.36
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; Google Page Speed Insights) Chrome/41.0.2272.118 Safari/537.36

Please change your user agent to a more up to date user agent of Chrome, for example the most recent one:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.186 Safari/537.36
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 8.0.0; XXXXX) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.137 Mobile Safari/537.36

Or change it to a more generic one, like the GoogleBot:

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)

The reason of contacting is that we've blocked certain strings in this user-agent because of abusive use of it by others, We've currently removed the user-agent filter so sites can be checked on our platform by the PageSpeed Insights tool.

Kind regards, Daniel
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