Verify if your website's favicon meets Google's requirements for display in search results. Enter your website URL below to check your favicon configuration.
Favicons are small icons that represent your website in browser tabs, bookmarks, and search results. When properly configured, your favicon can appear in Google Search results, enhancing your brand visibility and making your site more recognizable to users scanning through search results.
For your favicon to appear in Google Search results, it must meet these requirements:
<link rel="icon" href="/path/to/favicon.ico">
Google supports several rel
attribute values for specifying a favicon:
icon
- The standard icon that represents your site (recommended)shortcut icon
- An earlier, alternative version of icon (also supported)apple-touch-icon
- An iOS-friendly icon that represents your siteapple-touch-icon-precomposed
- An alternative icon for earlier versions of iOSexample.com
and blog.example.com
can have different favicons.example.com/blog
will use the same favicon as example.com
.<link>
tag with appropriate rel
attribute in your home page's <head>
sectionAfter implementing or updating your favicon, it can take anywhere from several days to several weeks for Google to recrawl your home page and process the new information. You can speed up this process by using Google's URL Inspection tool in Search Console to request indexing of your home page.
Google supports any valid favicon format, including ICO, PNG, SVG, GIF, and JPEG. However, ICO and PNG are the most commonly used formats for favicons.
Yes, your favicon doesn't need to be hosted on your site. It can be hosted on a content delivery network (CDN) or any other accessible location. The URL can be a relative path or an absolute path.
Even if your favicon meets all requirements, Google doesn't guarantee it will appear in search results. Additionally, if Google deems your favicon inappropriate, it will be replaced with a default icon.
A properly configured favicon is a small but important element of your website's brand identity. By ensuring your favicon meets Google's requirements, you can enhance your brand visibility in search results and make your site more recognizable to users.