Vercel works well for Staticly projects when you want fast global delivery and a polished deployment dashboard.
Best use cases
Vercel is a good choice for:
- marketing pages and product sites
- projects that need quick previews from Git pushes
- teams that already use GitHub-based workflows
Prepare the exported site
Make sure the files from Staticly represent the final production build. For a plain static site, Vercel only needs the output directory.
If your repository contains the final files directly, the configuration can stay minimal.
Deploy from the dashboard
- Push the generated site to GitHub.
- Import the repository into Vercel.
- Set the output directory if your files are not in the repo root.
- Skip custom framework settings unless the repo actually requires them.
For fully static output, the key setting is usually the output directory:
Framework preset: Other
Build command: empty or project-specific
Output directory: .
Verify static behavior
After the first deploy:
- open the production URL
- test internal links
- verify that images and fonts load
- inspect the page source to confirm the expected metadata is present
Common issues
Framework preset adds unnecessary behavior
If the project is just static HTML, choose the simplest preset possible. Over-configuring the deployment usually creates more confusion than value.
Output directory mismatch
If Vercel deploys but the site looks empty, the platform is probably reading the wrong folder.
When to choose another platform
Choose GitHub Pages if you want the lightest possible setup in a repo you already own. Choose Cloudflare Pages if you want deeper Cloudflare integration. Choose Netlify if you want the smoothest manual deploy flow.