diff --git a/etc/stackalytics.conf b/etc/stackalytics.conf
index 370ad532d..63b2d5dd1 100644
--- a/etc/stackalytics.conf
+++ b/etc/stackalytics.conf
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 # listen_port = 8080
 
 # Number of days to update members
-# days_to_update_members = 7
+# days_to_update_members = 30
 
 # The address of file with corrections data
 # corrections_uri = https://git.openstack.org/cgit/stackforge/stackalytics/plain/etc/corrections.json
diff --git a/stackalytics/processor/config.py b/stackalytics/processor/config.py
index 3218f7ecb..d98bb68fc 100644
--- a/stackalytics/processor/config.py
+++ b/stackalytics/processor/config.py
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ OPTS = [
                help='The address dashboard listens on'),
     cfg.IntOpt('listen-port', default=8080,
                help='The port dashboard listens on'),
-    cfg.IntOpt('days_to_update_members', default=7,
+    cfg.IntOpt('days_to_update_members', default=30,
                help='Number of days to update members'),
     cfg.StrOpt('corrections-uri',
                default=('https://git.openstack.org/cgit/'
diff --git a/stackalytics/processor/mps.py b/stackalytics/processor/mps.py
index b4be2a9e5..83d9e9ff7 100644
--- a/stackalytics/processor/mps.py
+++ b/stackalytics/processor/mps.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 # implied.
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
+import random
 
 import re
 import time
@@ -106,5 +107,7 @@ def log(uri, runtime_storage_inst, days_to_update_members, members_look_ahead):
         LOG.debug('New member: %s', member['member_id'])
         yield member
 
+        time.sleep(random.random() * 5)
+
     LOG.debug('Last_member_index: %s', last_member_index)
     runtime_storage_inst.set_by_key('last_member_index', last_member_index)
diff --git a/stackalytics/processor/utils.py b/stackalytics/processor/utils.py
index 59909db93..a81050ef0 100644
--- a/stackalytics/processor/utils.py
+++ b/stackalytics/processor/utils.py
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ import cgi
 import datetime
 import gzip
 import json
+import random
 import re
 import time
 
@@ -86,9 +87,20 @@ def check_email_validity(email):
     return False
 
 
+user_agents = [
+    'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0',
+    'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_6) AppleWebKit/537.78.2',
+    'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0',
+    'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X) Chrome/37.0.2062.120',
+    'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko'
+]
+
+
 def read_uri(uri):
     try:
-        fd = six.moves.urllib.request.urlopen(uri)
+        req = six.moves.urllib.request.Request(
+            url=uri, headers={'User-Agent': random.choice(user_agents)})
+        fd = six.moves.urllib.request.urlopen(req)
         raw = fd.read()
         fd.close()
         return raw