diff --git a/lib/middleware/anonymous_cache.rb b/lib/middleware/anonymous_cache.rb
index b31d0b03aef..48a7648a70a 100644
--- a/lib/middleware/anonymous_cache.rb
+++ b/lib/middleware/anonymous_cache.rb
@@ -62,7 +62,11 @@ module Middleware
         @is_crawler ||=
           begin
             user_agent = @env[USER_AGENT]
-            CrawlerDetection.crawler?(user_agent) ? :true : :false
+            if CrawlerDetection.crawler?(user_agent)
+              :true
+            else
+              user_agent.downcase.include?("discourse") ? :true : :false
+            end
           end
         @is_crawler == :true
       end
diff --git a/spec/components/middleware/request_tracker_spec.rb b/spec/components/middleware/request_tracker_spec.rb
index 9029024953f..ca8e1b67dd6 100644
--- a/spec/components/middleware/request_tracker_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/components/middleware/request_tracker_spec.rb
@@ -68,6 +68,16 @@ describe Middleware::RequestTracker do
       expect(ApplicationRequest.page_view_anon.first.count).to eq(2)
       expect(ApplicationRequest.page_view_crawler.first.count).to eq(1)
       expect(ApplicationRequest.page_view_anon_mobile.first.count).to eq(1)
+
+      # log discourse User Agent requests as crawler for page views
+      data = Middleware::RequestTracker.get_data(env(
+        "HTTP_USER_AGENT" => "DiscourseAPI Ruby Gem 0.19.0"
+      ), ["200", { "Content-Type" => 'text/html' }], 0.1)
+
+      Middleware::RequestTracker.log_request(data)
+      ApplicationRequest.write_cache!
+
+      expect(ApplicationRequest.page_view_crawler.first.count).to eq(2)
     end
 
   end