Website favicon icon not showing up

date

Jul 1, 2024

slug

bog-favicon-not-show

status

Published

Background

I was gonna change the icon for my little cute blog. I got the icons of all versions needed:

The icon on the browser tab will be favicon.ico, but it didn’t show up after deployment.

According to this answer on stack overflow, the favicon.ico won’t be shown if it’s a 64x64 image.

my favicon.ico happened to be a 64x64 image. So I changed it to be 32x32. But it didn’t work.

I fixed it by adding ?v1 after the image path:

to be

By adding a query parameter, we can force a refresh of the icon.