Free favicon audit & preview tool

See how your favicon actually looks — before your visitors do

Most favicon problems only show up after launch: missing on Google, invisible in dark mode, blurry in a crowded tab bar. Check an existing site or preview a new icon in seconds.

Check a website's favicon

Enter any URL to see which favicon files it has, and which ones are missing.

Preview your own favicon

Upload an icon to see it in a browser tab, a crowded tab bar, Google search results, a mobile home screen, and dark mode — all at once. Nothing leaves your browser.

Click to upload or drag an image here — PNG, JPG, SVG, or ICO

What this tool checks

Standard favicon

The classic favicon.ico in your site's root, still used as a fallback by many browsers and crawlers.

Modern PNG icons

16×16 and 32×32 icons declared with a <link rel="icon"> tag, the format modern browsers prefer.

Apple touch icon

The 180×180 icon iOS uses when someone adds your site to their home screen.

Android & PWA manifest

The 192×192 and 512×512 icons Android Chrome and installable web apps look for in your web manifest.

Google search readiness

Whether your favicon meets Google's own requirements to actually appear next to your listing in search results.

Legibility at small sizes

A rough contrast and detail check for how your icon holds up once it's shrunk down to 16 pixels.

Why favicons still matter

A favicon is one of the smallest assets on your website, and one of the easiest to get wrong. It's also one of the few brand elements that shows up outside your site entirely — in a browser's tab bar, in bookmarks, in Google's mobile search results, and on a phone's home screen after someone saves your page. When it's missing, browsers fall back to a plain gray globe, and that gap is more noticeable than most site owners expect.

The tricky part is that a favicon which looks fine in one place can quietly fail in another. An icon designed on a white background can vanish in a dark-mode tab bar. A logo with fine detail can turn into a smudge at 16 pixels. A site can have a perfectly good favicon.ico and still not show up in Google search, because Google checks a separate set of size and crawlability rules. This tool checks all of those places at once, so you catch the gap before a visitor does.