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Does Browserhawk affect the spidering of a site? For example, if I use BrowserHawk from my web scripts will that have any affect?
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You can safely use BrowserHawk from your scripts without affecting how the crawlers or search engines index your site.
For example, extended property checks (such as checking screen size, plug-ins, connection speed, disabled cookies, etc) simply return immediately without doing any work or processing whatsoever when BrowserHawk determines that it is a crawler or search engine making the request and not an actual browser.
Therefore BrowserHawk does not send test code to the crawler and no special processing is performed (no redirect, no changes to the query string, etc), which could otherwise result in the crawler indexing your site incorrectly or penalizing you for redirection.
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