Define a favicon to show in search results

If your site has a
favicon, it
can be included in Google Search results for your site.

Favicon

Implementation

Here’s how to make your site eligible for a favicon in Google Search results:

1. Create a favicon that follows the guidelines.
2. Add a <link> tag to the header of your home page
   with the following syntax:

   To extract the favicon information, Google relies on the following attributes of the
   link element:

   Attributes
   rel	Google supports the following rel attribute values for specifying a favicon; use whichever one fits your use case: icon The icon that represents your site, as defined in the HTML standard. apple-touch-icon An iOS-friendly icon that represents your site, per Apple’s developer documentation. apple-touch-icon-precomposed An alternative icon for earlier versions of iOS, per Apple’s developer documentation.
   href	The URL of the favicon. The URL can be a relative path (/smile.ico) or absolute path (https://example.com/smile.ico). The URL doesn’t need to be hosted on your site (for example, your favicon could be hosted on a content delivery network (CDN)).

3. Allow time for Google to recrawl and process the new information on your home page. Remember
   that crawling can take anywhere from several days to several weeks, depending on how
   often our systems determine content needs to be refreshed. You can
   request indexing of your
   site’s home page by using the URL Inspection tool.

Guidelines

You must follow these guidelines to be eligible for a favicon in Google Search results.

• Google Search only supports one favicon per site, where a site is defined by the
  hostname. For example, https://www.example.com/ and
  https://code.example.com/ are two different hostnames, and therefore can have two
  different favicons. However, https://www.example.com/sub-site is a subdirectory of
  a site, and you can only set one favicon for https://www.example.com/, which
  applies to the site and its subdirectories.
  
  Supported: https://example.com (this is a domain-level home page)
  
  Supported: https://news.example.com (this is a subdomain-level home page)
  
  Not supported: https://example.com/news (this is a subdirectory-level home page)
• Googlebot-Image must be able to crawl the favicon file and Googlebot must be able to crawl the
  home page; they cannot be
  blocked
  for crawling.
• To help people quickly identify your site when they scan through search results, make sure your
  favicon is visually representative of your website’s brand.
• Your favicon must be a square (1:1 aspect ratio) that’s at least 8x8px. While the minimum size
  requirement is 8x8px, we recommend using a favicon that’s larger than 48x48px so that it looks
  good on various surfaces. Google Search supports the following favicon file formats: BMP, GIF,
  ICO, PNG, JPEG, PPM, and TIFF.
• The favicon URL must be stable (don’t change the URL frequently).
• Google won’t show any favicon that it deems inappropriate, including pornography or hate
  symbols (for example, swastikas). If this type of imagery is discovered within a favicon,
  Google replaces it with a default icon.

Submit feedback about favicons in search results

If you have feedback about Google’s handling of favicons in search results,
fill out our favicon feedback form.
Note that feedback submitted here is designed to help our teams to improve the systems in Google
Search overall and doesn’t guarantee it will be acted upon individually.