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A favicon (short for 'favorites icon'), also known as a website icon, a page icon or an urlicon, is an icon associated
with a particular website or webpage. A web designer can create such an icon, and many recent web browsers
can then make use of them. Browsers that support favicons may display them in the browser's URL bar, next to the
site's name in lists of bookmarks, and next to the page's title in a tabbed document interface.
The original means of defining a favicon was by placing a file called favicon.ico in the root directory of a
web server. This would then automatically be used in Internet Explorer's favorites (bookmarks) display. Later,
however, a more flexible system was created, using HTML to indicate the location of an icon for any given page.
This is achieved by adding two link elements in the <head> section of the document as detailed below. In this way,
any appropriately sized (16×16 pixels or larger) image can be used, and although many still use the ICO format,
other browsers now also support the animated GIF and PNG image formats.
Most modern browsers implement both methods. Because of this, web servers receive many requests for the file
"favicon.ico" even if it doesn't exist. This may annoy web server administrators by creating many server log entries,
and unnecessarily loading the disk, CPU, and network. Another common problem is that the favicons may disappear
if the browser's cache is emptied.
Originally, Internet Explorer only used favicons for bookmarks (for instance MSIE 6.0), which created a minor privacy
concern in that a site owner could tell how many people had bookmarked their site by checking the access logs to see
how many people downloaded the favicon.ico file. However, since newer versions of Internet Explorer (e.g. 7.0) and
most other browsers also display the favicon in the address bar on every visit, this is becoming less of an issue.
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