(Entry was posted by Nathan Nikolay Gaidy on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 09/03/2020).

Reason for a website to be crawled by the desktop crawler

What would be the reason for a website to be crawled by the desktop crawler?

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Richard Hearne: To see how it renders on desktop. Google doesn`t want to serve bad user experiences to either desktop or mobile users. Until we`re 100% mobile usage, you can expect to be getting requests from desktop user agent.
Nathan Nikolay Gaidy: Richard Hearne Until?
Desktops are going away?
Richard Hearne: As long as there is a large proportion of desktop users, you`ll likely see Googlebot crawling as desktop. Quite normal. Also required due to dynamic varying of response based on user-agent.