🔍 Favicon Checker

Find and view the favicon for any website. Download or preview the website icon.

💡 Tip: Enter a domain and click "Check Favicon" to find the website icon.
Enter a domain and click "Check Favicon" to view results.

What the check looks at

Give it a domain and the tool fetches that page's HTML and hunts for the places an icon can be declared, then reports whether one was found and how many declarations there are. Browsers look in the same two places: the link tags in the head, and, if there are none, /favicon.ico at the root of the host - which they request whether you put a file there or not.

<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" sizes="32x32">
<link rel="icon" href="/icon.svg" type="image/svg+xml">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/apple-touch-icon.png">  180x180
<link rel="manifest" href="/site.webmanifest">              192 and 512

Those four cover every current browser and both mobile home screens. A count above four usually means old shortcut icon lines and a stack of legacy Apple sizes that nothing has needed since iOS 8.

Getting the icon into search results

Google shows a favicon beside mobile results, and its requirements are specific rather than aesthetic:

Favicons are cached harder than almost anything else on the web, by browsers and by Google alike. After a change, expect your own address bar to keep the old one for days, and the search result to take longer still.

Frequently asked questions

What size should a favicon be?

Ship an SVG for browsers, which scales to anything, plus a 180x180 PNG for the iOS home screen and a 512x512 PNG for Android. Add a favicon.ico containing a 32x32 image for old software that asks for nothing else. If you want the icon in Google results, make sure at least one raster file is a multiple of 48 pixels square.

Why is my favicon missing from Google search results?

The usual reasons are that the icon is not a multiple of 48 pixels, that the file or its folder is disallowed in robots.txt, that it is served from a different host with no declaration on the home page, or simply that Google has not recrawled it yet. Nothing about it affects ranking - it changes how the result looks, not where it sits.

Do I still need a favicon.ico file?

It is no longer required, but it is close to free. Every browser requests /favicon.ico when no icon is declared, and without a file each of those requests is a 404 in your logs. One small .ico at the root ends that, and covers RSS readers, feed tools and older software that never learned the link tags.