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Enter a domain on the left and run the test. Results stream in here.
Paste your homepage or any page URL. We fetch the HTML and read the head for icon declarations.
We detect rel=icon, shortcut icon, apple-touch-icon, mask-icon, and manifest references, resolving each to an absolute URL.
We also request the conventional /favicon.ico and /apple-touch-icon.png at your root and report which icons actually exist and respond.
Google displays your favicon next to your URL in mobile search results and increasingly on desktop. A clear, recognizable favicon improves click-through rate and brand trust. If Google can't find a valid favicon, it shows a generic globe icon, which looks unfinished and less trustworthy. While not a direct ranking factor, the CTR impact is real.
At minimum: a /favicon.ico at the site root (browsers and Google check this automatically), a <link rel="icon"> tag pointing to a PNG or SVG for modern browsers, and an apple-touch-icon (typically 180x180 PNG) for iOS home-screen bookmarks. A web app manifest with icons is recommended for installable PWAs. This tool checks for each.
Yes. For favicons to appear in Google Search, the icon file and the page referencing it must be crawlable (not blocked by robots.txt), the favicon should be a square (multiples of 48px work well, e.g. 48x48, 96x96), in a supported format (ICO, PNG, SVG, etc.), and stable at its URL. A favicon that 404s or is blocked won't show in results.
It's strongly recommended. Even when you declare <link rel="icon"> tags, many browsers, feed readers, and tools fall back to requesting /favicon.ico at the root by default. Having the file there prevents 404s in your server logs and guarantees a fallback icon. The safest setup is both: the root .ico file and explicit link tags.
Provide a multi-resolution favicon.ico (16x16 and 32x32 inside it), a 32x32 or larger PNG via rel=icon, an SVG for crisp scaling on modern browsers, and a 180x180 apple-touch-icon PNG. For Google Search specifically, ensure at least one icon is a square multiple of 48px. SVG favicons also enable automatic dark-mode adaptation.
Common causes: the favicon URL is blocked by robots.txt, the file returns a 404 or wrong content type, the icon isn't square, Google hasn't recrawled your homepage since you added it, or the favicon changed too recently. Google fetches favicons from the homepage's declared icon, so make sure your homepage's <link rel="icon"> is correct and crawlable.
Yes. Beyond parsing the <link> tags in your HTML, this tool also probes the default /favicon.ico and /apple-touch-icon.png paths at your site root to confirm whether the actual files exist and respond successfully — catching cases where the tag is missing but a file is present, or vice versa.