Favicon Checker
Check any website's favicon — validate sizes, formats, and missing icon variants.
Quick answer
The Favicon Checker tests whether a live URL serves favicon.ico, SVG, and Apple touch icons — without uploading files or leaving your browser.
Check favicons on any website
Install the FetchFavicon Chrome Extension to extract, preview, and validate favicons instantly.
- Files deleted automatically
- Works in browser
- No signup required
- Secure processing
About this utility
Paste a URL and probe standard favicon locations in your browser. Broken favicon paths are a common launch defect. Paste any public URL and this tester loads the page context to verify standard link rel icons, apple-touch-icon tags, and manifest references. It helps webmasters audit competitor sites, debug staging environments, and confirm CDN cache updates without installing desktop software. All checks run from your browser with no server-side crawling of private networks.
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FAQ
What does this favicon checker test?
It probes standard favicon paths on any public URL — favicon.ico, PNG and SVG icons, Apple Touch icons, and precomposed variants. Paste a site address and see which files resolve in your browser without uploading anything to our servers.
Why is my favicon not showing in Google search results?
Google needs a reachable favicon linked from your homepage, at least 48×48, and crawl access via Googlebot-Image. A missing file, blocked robots.txt rule, or stale cache can delay SERP updates for days or weeks after you fix the icon.
What is the difference between favicon.ico and PNG favicons?
favicon.ico is a legacy multi-size container browsers fall back to; PNG favicons give sharper results at specific sizes on high-DPI screens. Most sites ship both — .ico at the root plus PNG link tags for 32×32 and 180×180.
Does this tool check link rel="icon" tags?
This checker tests whether standard favicon file paths load from the domain you enter. It does not parse your HTML source for <link rel="icon"> declarations — use the favicon snippet generator if you need to audit head markup.
Why does my favicon work locally but not in production?
Common causes: the file was not deployed to the server root, paths in link tags point to the wrong folder, CDN cache serves an old 404, or HTTPS mixed-content rules block the request. Verify each path resolves on the live domain after deploy.