Andrey Sitnik does a good job each year investigating what websites actually need in terms of doing the best we can for site favicons. The 2024 edition is out, and it looks like this:
<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" sizes="32x32">
<link rel="icon" href="/icon.svg" type="image/svg+xml">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/apple-touch-icon.png"><!-- 180×180 -->
<link rel="manifest" href="/manifest.webmanifest">Code language: HTML, XML (xml)// manifest.webmanifest
{
"icons": [
{ "src": "/icon-192.png", "type": "image/png", "sizes": "192x192" },
{ "src": "/icon-512.png", "type": "image/png", "sizes": "512x512" }
]
}Code language: JSON / JSON with Comments (json)It’s worth knowing what you actually need, as there are quite a few “favicon generator” websites out there that spit out many dozen files and suggest outdated code that just isn’t needed anymore.
