Automatic mitigation of Google and Bing crawl delay, via Vercel’s Skew Protection
Vercel extends Skew Protection's maximum asset retention to 60 days for Googlebot and Bingbot requests, preventing indexing failures caused by delayed crawler rendering on Pro and Enterprise plans.
Google and Bing web crawlers occasionally crawl a document, but render it up to several weeks later using a headless browser. This delay between document crawl and assets download (which happens during render) can cause indexing failures if the website has been re-deployed since the crawl. for projects that have enabled.Vercel now automatically protects against such indexing failuresSkew Protection This was achieved by extending the maximum age for Skew Protection to 60 days for requests coming from major search engine bots, such as Googlebot and Bingbot.
This means that assets deployed up to 60 days ago will still be accessible to search engines when they render your document. Regardless of the maximum age configured in the dashboard, Pro and Enterprise accounts using Skew Protection will automatically be protected from this delay, thereby improving SEO. Learn more about and . Also, check out our , which provides a deeper dive into the search rendering process.Skew Protectionenable it in your projectSEO research on how Google handles JavaScript throughout the indexing process Read more