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# Sudden increase in Edge Requests without traffic changes

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Sui (@sui-4202) · 2026-03-25

Hello,

## Problem
Since January 2026, my website has seen an increase from 5M to 40M edge requests per month, despite no changes in traffic or settings. I noticed this due to increased overage fees in our monthly invoice.

## Observations
- **Edge Requests:** In `Observability` > `Edge Requests`, I can see 1M+ requests for our `favicon.ico` every 24 hours, which I assume is the main culprit.
- **Cache Status:** I confirmed the cache rate is 100% on this `favicon.ico`.
- **Bot Activity:** Bot numbers are quite low and acceptable.
- **Timeline:** The problem started in January, but our favicon and website did not receive any updates in the months before or after that.

## Question
Does anyone have tips for how we can reduce the edge requests on this? I am wondering if perhaps a setting was changed through a new Vercel update that we need to adjust.

Any support is appreciated.

Thank you


Izumie (@pyavamottapettavan-9) · 2026-04-07 · ♥ 1

you can configure this in vercel.json.

Setup a rewrite/redirect route for /favicon.ico so it will not hit as function request. it is one of the worst feature of vercel that even in full backend servers vercel bot tries to find for favicon.ico

Rather than submitting favicon.ico url in the dashboard the bot keep sending requests just to increase bandwidth and fluid compute.

i deployed fastapi,serverless is already slow and when favicon hits it is calculated into function run time.