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Favicon guides: sizes, formats and best practices
New to favicons, or checking a detail? Our free guides explain what a favicon is, which files and sizes you actually need, and how each platform uses them — no jargon, tested on real devices.
What is a favicon?
The favicon is this little icon in the tabs of desktop browsers.
Simple enough! However, this is not the full story. The favicon has several more usages depending on the browser, platform and device.
For example, the favicon is not visible when visiting a website from Android Chrome... But it is when Chrome displays miniatures of the opened sites for picking one.
In addition to the classic "tab" icon, the favicon serves other purposes. The most common one is to act as a high resolution icon for mobile devices when creating a shortcut to a website on the home screen.
Since a few years, the favicon is also used by Google and most search engines in their result pages.
Why your site needs a favicon
A favicon has a lot to do with branding. It is often the first element a visitor sees. Because the favicon is the logo of the website, this is a first great opportunity to make a good impression. Even if the visitor leaves after just a few seconds, he will probably have noticed the favicon.
This is especially true since the appearance of the favicon in the Google result pages: someone can see the favicon of a website without even visiting it.
Which favicon files do you need?
With so many usages, it is no surprise that a favicon is not just a single image, as it used to be when it was first introduced.
The PNG and SVG favicons are the most important ones nowadays. The SVG covers browser tabs (Safari from version 26), and the PNG covers Google result pages and older browsers.
The Apple Touch icon is another must have, because it serves as the "high resolution" icon. It is obviously used by iOS, but also by Android if there is no web app manifest. This icon serves as a shortcut icon on the home screen of mobile devices, but is also grabbed by spiders to represent the website in lists, etc.
What about the old favicon.ico? It is no longer useful, except for one specific case: when a visitor is viewing a PDF (eg. https://example.com/some.pdf), the browser will look for https://example.com/favicon.ico to display it in the tab.
A brief history of the favicon
The favicon was first introduced by Internet Explorer 5, in 1999. It was a 16x16 pixels icon which was displayed along with bookmarked pages. Thus the "favorites icon" name.
Another important milestone in the history of favicon was the introduction of the Apple Touch icon. This was in 2007, with the release of the first iPhone. At that point, a single image file was not enough anymore.
The main favicon format is now the SVG, supported by current Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera and Safari 26+.