Googlebot will no longer be recognized as an iPhone, but as a Nexus 5X

Google will change soon the way in which its web crawler, Googlebot, will be recognized while visiting various web sites. His job is to scan the internet in order to index any website or any page in the database updating existing ones that have been recently modified. It is at the base of the operation of the company's search engine, in no uncertain terms the most popular and widely used in the world.

During its operation, it sets various user-agent Googlebot to measure certain characteristics of the web page by simulating the performance of different types of devices, such as smartphones, laptops or tablets. Currently, smartphone side, Googlebot is disguised as iPhone with iOS 8.3 while scanning the sites, but this will change from next April 18. Since that date, the system will appear as a 5X Nexus with Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow.
According to the Webmaster Central Blog Google passage allow Googlebot to more accurately analyze the web pages that make extensive use of new technologies and new standards, such as HTML5. The change will be operated because the system using Googlebot to render the pages is actually more similar to that of the native Android browser, Chrome, which is not that of iOS, Safari Mobile.

The move could certainly be seen as symbolic, but it would be hasty analysis. While it is true that Android is grinding sales numbers incontestable from other platforms, including iOS, on the other change from Google it does not have a meaning so deep. Google writes that the vast majority of users do not even notice them and 99% of websites will not suffer any direct influence.
Sites that occur substantial changes will be those who try to escape the Google crawler. Those who are concerned that their site will not be seen as "mobile-friendly" (feature that in the coming months will have even more weight to the purpose of indexation on search pages) can use your own Google Fetch tool and render.