Hi Vercel team,
I'm experiencing a persistent Google Search Console crawling issue with my production website hosted on Vercel.
Project: dio-montagne Domain: dio-montagne.com Plan: Hobby Production URL: https://dio-montagne.com/
Google Search Console's "Test Live URL" consistently fails with:
"URL is not available to Google" Page fetch: Failed: Server connection error
This is a current Live Test result, not an old indexing status.
The same issue also affects sitemap processing: https://dio-montagne.com/sitemap.xml
Search Console reports that the sitemap could not be fetched.
We have already performed extensive troubleshooting.
Confirmed working:
- https://dio-montagne.com/ returns HTTP 200
- https://dio-montagne.com/robots.txt returns HTTP 200
- https://dio-montagne.com/sitemap.xml returns HTTP 200
- sitemap.xml is valid XML and contains 12 URLs
- robots.txt does not block Googlebot and contains the Sitemap directive
- Googlebot Desktop user-agent returns HTTP 200
- Googlebot Smartphone user-agent returns HTTP 200
- GoogleOther user-agent returns HTTP 200
- Burst testing (20 requests per URL) produced no 401, 403 or 429 responses
- DNS resolves correctly using Google DNS, Cloudflare and Quad9
- Apex domain resolves to 216.198.79.1
- No AAAA record exists
- SSL certificate is valid for the apex and www domains
- Deployment Protection is not blocking the custom domain
- No project Firewall/Bot Protection rules are configured
- A fresh production redeploy was also performed, but the Google Search Console Live Test still fails
The website is publicly accessible from normal browsers and external curl tests without any problems.
The important difference is that Google's actual Search Console Live Test consistently reports a server connection error, while simulated Googlebot user-agent requests from our own external tests succeed.
The Live Test failures were reproduced around:
2026-09-01 23:50 JST 2026-09-02 00:06 JST 2026-09-02 00:09 JST
Our requests are being served from the kix1 (Osaka) Vercel edge PoP.
Could someone from Vercel please investigate whether Google's real crawler / URL Inspection infrastructure is reaching a different Vercel edge PoP or network path and encountering a connection failure?
If possible, please check Vercel edge/network logs for failed connection attempts from Google's crawler infrastructure around the timestamps above.
Our goal is for Google Search Console's "Test Live URL" to successfully fetch:
https://dio-montagne.com/ https://dio-montagne.com/robots.txt https://dio-montagne.com/sitemap.xml
We have intentionally not changed our existing email MX/SPF or Resend DNS records because email delivery is currently working correctly.
Thank you for your help.
