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Favicon not visible

I am creating a site at https://www.atq-quality.com/ and I have put a favicon in the root directory (it looks like a blue Q). It is not showing up. I put it up a couple of days ago. Does it take that long or do I have to do something with it? I just put the sitemap online but I believe those are not related, correct?

Dr. Klahn

If a favicon does not show up in a browser URL line or in a browser bookmark, it's a browser issue. I've just checked the availability of your favicon; it is there and it is accessible.

On the other hand, if your concern is that the favicon is not showing up in goofle or bing search results, that might take up to a month. Or more. Or possibly never; I have a site which has been online for 25 years, and the favicon never shows in searches. I suppose it has to do with how popular the site is.

HainKurt

it is showing up...

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Scott Fell

It does show up for me. You may just need to do a hard refresh or clear your cache.

HainKurt

I guess the icon is set somewhere else

I see this

https://www.atq-quality.com/assets/images/g-transparent2-351x345.png

and it is defined like this on page

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/assets/images/g-transparent2-351x345.png" type="image/x-icon">

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Bob Schneider

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No it's a blue"Q". The "G" is from my other site. I will clear my cache and see if that works.

Scott Fell

Can you see in your code how it is trying to pull in the other?

Are you running multiple domains on one 'site'?

HainKurt

page is using this

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/assets/images/g-transparent2-351x345.png" type="image/x-icon">

either change your code or replace that image with blue...
it is not cache issue...

lenamtl

Hi,

I don't see the blue icon only the old one.

You may try to use this tool, it generate the code for your fav icon for multiple devices.
https://realfavicongenerator.net/

When adding the favicon into your meta this help to get the best result also it generate other icon format / extension.

Bob Schneider

ASKER

Thank you very much everyone!

Bob Schneider

ASKER

So I converted an old site built with Mobirise and that is why it is pulling the old favicon. I added a link to the new one to my head section and now it shows the blue Q but first tries to show the old one. I will go in and delete the old one altogether.

Thanks again!

HainKurt

yes I see it
and no reference to old icon in source...

David Johnson, CD

. However, the format for the image you have chosen must be 16x16 pixels or 32x32 pixels, using either 8-bit or 24-bit colors. The format of the image must be one of PNG (a W3C standard), GIF, or ICO.

Your favicon is not square .. I'vv used the favicon site to fix your icon
favicon_package_v0.16.zip

Bob Schneider

ASKER

Thank you!