So I've noticed that Firefox loves to request favicon.ico from the root of my website with every page request I paste into my browser, even if the browse output has no HTML at all -- or is even completely empty. I was wondering what folks consider best practices to be for dealing with favicons.
1) Do you specify a <link>
tag for the favicon?
2) Do you use .ico
or some other format? If you use .ico
, do you bother to create icons of different sizes or do you just convert some jpg/png/gif image?
3) Any tips for how to reduce server requests and achieve greatest efficiency?
4) Where do you see these favicons show up? I see them most commonly in my Firefox toolbars and the search bar, but not really anywhere else on my Ubuntu workstation.
Any wisdom and/or anecdotes much appreciated.