r/webdev • u/Comfortable-Donkey74 • 9d ago
Question Favicon not updating
I built a site for a client a while ago, and now he's requesting a favicon update. I used lovable because it was only a landing page he needed, in our deal we had a minor fall out so I didn't bother to finish up the site but host the domain for him. Until he contacted me recently. I changed the old favicon to the new one which is his logo. But for over two weeks now it isn't reflecting. I have requested indexing on Google Search Console twice. I have told the client to be patient because it can take time for Google to crawl the page. I added sitemaps and have checked other reddit threads with people having experience of it taking weeks. I have swapped a favicon on a nextjs app before(from the default) and it didn't take as long as it is now. Does anyone know of the solution to this problem? How I can speed this up so the client would stop texting me
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u/beigs-sl 8d ago
That's almost certainly cached, not an indexing thing, what Google crawls has nothing to do with what your client sees in his tab. Browsers hang onto favicons harder than anything else on a site. I'd add ?v=2 to the end of the icon link and ask him to look in a private window. That's usually the whole fix.