Checks / Links, canonical and speed
No favicon
Browsers show a favicon in the tab and in bookmarks, and Google can show it next to your result. We found no icon link on the home page and no icon at /favicon.ico.
favicon_missing · Links, canonical and speed · Notice
What triggers it
Your home page declares no icon and /favicon.ico answers "not found". A timeout, a refusal or a server error is not a finding.
What to change
Add <link rel="icon" href="/favicon.svg" type="image/svg+xml"> and a 48x48 /favicon.ico to the home page head.
Example
HTML to put in the page:
<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.svg" type="image/svg+xml">
<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" sizes="48x48">How to confirm the fix
- Open https://example.com/favicon.ico in a browser: it shows your icon, or view the home page source and check for <link rel="icon">
- Run a new crawl
How common it is
We have not measured how common this is on a sample of sites. Counts appear here when a study covers it.
About this check
| Check ID | favicon_missing |
|---|---|
| Report section | Links, canonical and speed |
| Severity | Notice |
| How it is decided | Measured: read directly from the page or the server's response. |
| Added | Before 19 Oct 2026 (versions 1 and 2), or a site-wide check with no version date yet |
| Status | Measured in every report |
| Report gives the code | Yes, one block for the site |
Related checks
- Page has no internal links (dead end)
- Page is more than 3 clicks from the home page
- Invalid hreflang
- hreflang has no x-default
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