Thread: favicon.ico size

Why is the favicon.ico file 22 Kb?  That sounds excessively large for a
tiny 16x16 image.

Kris Jurka

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Kris Jurka wrote:

> Why is the favicon.ico file 22 Kb?  That sounds excessively large for a
> tiny 16x16 image.
>

Also the site should use a <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico">
tag so browsers that don't wildly probe for "random" files pick it up.

Kris Jurka

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-www-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-www-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Kris Jurka
> Sent: 28 January 2005 09:53
> To: pgsql-www@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] favicon.ico size
>
>
>
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Kris Jurka wrote:
>
> > Why is the favicon.ico file 22 Kb?  That sounds excessively
> large for a
> > tiny 16x16 image.
> >

There were 48x48 and 32x32 versions in there as well. I've stripped them
out now.

> Also the site should use a <link rel="shortcut icon"
> href="favicon.ico">
> tag so browsers that don't wildly probe for "random" files pick it up.

Done.

Thanks, Dave.