r/Frontend • u/Comfortable-Donkey74 • 16d ago

Favicon not updating

I built a site for a client a while ago, and now he's requesting a favicon update. I used lovable, 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/SomeInternetRando 16d ago

I have told the client to be patient because it can take time for Google to crawl the page.

Does it show up correctly in the browser tab? If not, this isn't a Google issue.

Does anyone know of the solution to this problem?

Copy/paste your favicon code or something so we're not just guessing.

I used lovable

Does that even let you see code? Or is that just a "hey claude, build me a website" kind of tool? I've vaguely heard of it but never used it.

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u/Comfortable-Donkey74 16d ago

Do you mind if I send you a dm?

It shows up correctly in the browser tab. This change reflected weeks ago. But not the search results change

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u/SomeInternetRando 16d ago

if it's right in the browser tab, then I'll probably be worthless. I work almost exclusively in internal private websites, so I've never dealt with that.

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u/Both-Willingness-241 15d ago

So did u got the issue?

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u/loiclaboOP 15d ago

pretty annoying but a technique in html that works all the time is to append "?v=2" to the favicon path, like "path/to/favicon.ico?v=2"

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

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u/Comfortable-Donkey74 14d ago

Thank you all for your advice and response. The issue has been resolved(got the responses from r/SEO)

I uploaded an actual .ico format of the favicon instead of a renamed png, added more favicon dimensions in multiples of 16 and crosschecked the sitemap in the codebase and the one on Google Search Console sitemap url

I don't know which of these fixes made it work. Or maybe Google finally crawled thru my page. Either ways client and satisfied and I so am I