Audit rules
Favicon
The page declares no icon link (rel contains "icon"). An empty data: icon only suppresses the browser request and is reported for review. In a QuikSEO audit, a failure has info severity and counts against the score. The exact condition, its exceptions and its sources follow below.
document.faviconInfo01 — Definition
How This Rule Is Checked
The rule is a pure function of the fetched page: no extra requests, no account settings. The same input always gives the same result.
Rule Severity and Score
- Rule id
document.favicon- Group
- Document
- Severity of a failure
- Info
- Counts in the score
- Yes, whenever it applies to the page
- Required for a score
- No
- Replaces the check
favicon
Condition and Exceptions
- Condition
- No rel~=icon link → fail (info)
- Exceptions
- A data:, empty icon counts as declared but is reported as review (legacy treated it as a valid favicon)
Sources
- Sources
- Define Website Favicon for Search Results | Google Search Central (Google Search Central, Q26)
HTML Standard, 4.6.8.9 Link type "icon" (WHATWG, Q51)
02 — Document
Other Rules in This Group
The other checks of the same group, each with its own condition and sources.
- Character Encoding Declarationdocument.charset
- Deprecated HTML Tagsdocument.deprecated_tags
- Doctypedocument.doctype
- Inline CSSdocument.inline_css
- HTML Language Attributedocument.lang
- Meta Keywordsdocument.meta_keywords
- Meta Refreshdocument.meta_refresh
- Meta Viewportdocument.viewport