Free tool
Favicon Checker
Which icons your site actually serves — favicon, Apple touch, Android, Windows tiles.
How it works
What is the Favicon Checker?
The Favicon Checker is a free tool that tests which icons your website actually serves. It looks for a standard favicon, an Apple touch icon, an Android Chrome icon, an SVG favicon and a Windows tile, requests each file to confirm it loads, and gives a compatibility score out of 100 with a preview of the icon it found.
How to use the Favicon Checker
- Enter your domain, such as example.com, so the tool reads your homepage.
- Press Check icons.
- Read the banner, which says whether a standard favicon was found, then your compatibility score out of 100 and the icon preview beside it.
- Check the five cards below. Each names an icon type and the tag the tool looked for, with a View Source link when the file loaded. A red icon means it is missing or its file did not load.
How do you check a website's favicon?
Read the page's <head> for the icon tags, then request each file. This checker does both for five kinds of icon, and an icon counts only when it is declared and its file answers with a success status. A tag pointing at a file that now returns 404 shows as missing.
The standard favicon is the first <link rel="icon"> or shortcut icon tag, or /favicon.ico at the root when there is no tag. The Android icon is a 192x192 or 512x512 icon, taken from the page or from the web app manifest.
How is the favicon score calculated?
The score adds up to 100: 30 points each for a working standard favicon, Apple touch icon and Android icon, and 10 for an SVG favicon. The Windows tile is reported and marked Optional, and does not count toward the score.
The score measures coverage across devices: a site at 100 serves a working icon for browser tabs, iPhone home screens and Android, plus a sharp SVG version.
Why is my favicon not showing in Google search?
Usually because Google cannot fetch it or it does not meet Google's guidelines. Google reads the icon declared with <link rel="icon"> on your homepage, requires a square image, and recommends one larger than 48x48 pixels. Both the homepage and the icon file must be open to Google's crawlers, so check that robots.txt does not block your assets folder.
Changes also take time. Google picks up a new icon when it next crawls your homepage, and keeping the icon URL stable helps.
Questions
- What is a favicon?
- A favicon is the small icon that represents a website in browser tabs, bookmarks and search results. It is set with a
<link rel="icon">tag in the page's<head>, or served as/favicon.icoat the site root. - What size should a favicon be?
- A favicon should be square, and a small set of sizes covers every place it appears: 32x32 for browser tabs, 180x180 for the Apple touch icon, and 192x192 and 512x512 for Android. For Google search, use an icon larger than 48x48 pixels.
- Why is my favicon not showing up?
- A favicon usually fails to show because its file returns an error, the tag is missing from the page, or the browser is showing a cached older icon. This checker shows whether each declared icon file actually loads, which rules out the first two.
- Should a favicon be ICO, PNG or SVG?
- A favicon can be ICO, PNG or SVG. ICO and PNG work in every browser while SVG support varies, so a safe setup is an SVG or PNG declared with
<link rel="icon">plus afavicon.icoat the root for clients that request it directly. - What size is an Apple touch icon?
- An Apple touch icon should be 180x180 pixels, the size iPhones use for a home screen shortcut. Declare it with
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/apple-touch-icon.png">in your<head>. - Why is my favicon not updating?
- A favicon often keeps showing the old version because browsers cache it heavily. Rename the file or add a version query such as
?v=2to the<link>URL, then reload. In Google search, the new icon appears after Google recrawls your homepage.
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