What is Favicon?
The short answer
A favicon is the small icon shown in browser tabs, bookmarks and search results that identifies a website at a glance.
What people say: “the little icon in the tab”.
Favicon, explained
Modern sites provide several sizes, including an Apple touch icon for home screens and an SVG that stays sharp at any size.
Questions people ask about Favicon
What is Favicon?
A favicon is the small icon shown in browser tabs, bookmarks and search results that identifies a website at a glance.
Related terms
Brand identity is the visible expression of a brand, including logo, colours, type, imagery and voice, applied consistently across the website and everything else.
WebsiteA website is a collection of linked web pages published under one domain name, stored on a server and viewed in a web browser.
Web pageA web page is a single document on the web, identified by its own URL and written in HTML, that a browser renders for a visitor.
Domain nameA domain name is the human-readable address of a website, such as example.com, that points to the server where the site lives.
Part of the Web Encyclopedia by Apex Flow Digital. Definitions are general knowledge, kept current, with no invented statistics.