Favicon checker: does this site serve a favicon and an Apple touch icon?
In short: Paste websites and see, for each, the favicon and Apple touch icon its home page declares (or /favicon.ico), whether each loads as an image, and its format and size. Limit: Icons added by JavaScript or listed only in a web app manifest aren't fetched.
A favicon checker reads a website's home page for its icon links and fetches each icon to confirm it loads as an image. Paste one site or up to 100 (500 after a Google sign-in): each gets Favicon and Apple icon, Favicon only, Broken favicon, No favicon or Unreachable, with the icon URL, how it was found, and its image format and pixel size.
Price: this tool is free. Checking a whole email list is from $9/mo, and the first 100 checks are free with Google, no card. See pricing
Sample result
acme.example serves an SVG favicon and a 180×180 Apple touch icon.
- Website
- acme.example
- Favicon
- SVG
- Apple icon
- PNG 180×180
What this means for you
Catch sites with no favicon, or one that points at a file that doesn't load.
- rel=icon and apple-touch-icon read
- /favicon.ico tried when none is declared
- Format and pixel size from the file itself
- 100 sites a run, 500 when signed in
- Favicon
- Apple icon
- Branding
By SimpleVerifier Team · Last updated
Checking a whole list of sites?
- Over 500 sites? Run them in batches of 500 when signed in and download the CSV after each.
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- Emailing the owners of these sites? Check the list at /verify. The first 100 email checks are free with a Google sign-in, no card.
How do I check if a website has a favicon?
- Paste one website or a list, one per line: up to 100 a run, or 500 after a free Google sign-in.
- Press Check favicons. Each home page is read for rel="icon" and rel="apple-touch-icon" links.
- Up to two declared favicons and one Apple touch icon are fetched; with none declared, or none loading, /favicon.ico and /apple-touch-icon.png are tried.
- Read each site's verdict and download the CSV with every icon URL and note.
Example
- You enter
- Three websites:
acme.example,globex.exampleandinitech.example. - You get
acme.exampleFavicon and Apple icon: an SVG declared with rel="icon" and a 180×180 PNG apple-touch-icon.globex.exampleFavicon only: /favicon.ico is a 32×32 ICO, no Apple touch icon.initech.exampleBroken favicon: the declared /img/fav.png returns an HTML page, not an image. Download the CSV.- Limits
- Up to 100 websites a run without an account and 500 when signed in with Google.
How do browsers find a favicon?
From <link rel="icon"> in the page's head, as the HTML standard defines (rel="shortcut icon" is the old spelling of the same thing). With no icon link, browsers ask for /favicon.ico at the site root. iOS uses rel="apple-touch-icon" for home-screen bookmarks, or asks for /apple-touch-icon.png.
Google Search shows a site's favicon next to its results when the home page declares one with a link tag, the icon is square, at least 8x8 pixels (48x48 or larger recommended), and Googlebot may crawl both the page and the icon.
What counts as a broken favicon?
A declared or default icon that answers with an error, times out, or returns something that isn't an image, such as an HTML 404 page served with a 200 status. The checker reads the first bytes of each icon to tell ICO, PNG, GIF, JPEG, WebP and SVG apart and reads the pixel size where the format holds it, so a mislabelled file is caught.
Who uses this tool, and for what?
- Agencies
- Find client sites that launched without a favicon or with a broken one.
- SEO teams
- Check the favicon Google shows in results is declared and loads.
- Developers
- Confirm icons survived a redesign, CDN move or framework upgrade.
- Brand teams
- Audit every company property for the right icons in one run.
What can’t this tool tell you?
- Icons added by JavaScript or listed only in a web app manifest aren't fetched.
- It reads the first 256 KB of the home page and 64 KB of each icon.
- It doesn't judge the icon's design or whether Google will show it.
- Up to 100 sites a run without an account and 500 signed in.
Common questions
- Why doesn't my favicon show in Google results?
- Google needs a link tag on the home page, a square icon at least 8x8 pixels, and crawl access to both. It also updates favicons on its own schedule after the next crawl, not at once.
- Do I still need favicon.ico?
- Not if the page declares an icon, but browsers still ask for /favicon.ico when it doesn't, so serving one avoids 404s in the logs.
- Are icons in a web app manifest checked?
- The manifest link is noted, but its icons aren't fetched. Icons added by JavaScript aren't seen either.
- What size should an Apple touch icon be?
- Apple's guidelines use 180x180 pixels for current iPhones. The checker shows the size of the icon it found.
- Can I check many sites at once?
- Yes. 100 sites a run without an account and 500 after a free Google sign-in, with a CSV.
- Is the favicon checker free?
- Yes, it's a free tool with no card. At most five small fetches per site.
Sources
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