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Favicon Checker

Check how any site favicon looks in Google search results, or upload an image to preview it and generate a complete favicon package. Everything runs in your browser.

The favicon is loaded directly by your browser. The Google option shows the exact icon Google uses in search results.

100% private. Uploaded images are read and redrawn entirely in your browser with the Canvas API and are never sent anywhere. In URL mode, your own browser loads the favicon image directly, so nothing passes through our server.

About this tool

The Favicon Checker helps you fix one of the most common branding problems in Google search: a site icon that looks cropped, blurry, or invisible. It works two ways. In "Check a live site" mode you paste a domain and your browser loads its favicon, including the exact icon Google serves in its search results, so you can see precisely how it appears. In "Upload an image" mode you load a source image, preview it across every context that matters, and download a complete favicon package.

Why favicons look cropped in Google

Google does not show your favicon as a plain square. On most surfaces, especially mobile search, it places the icon inside a circular or rounded mask. If the meaningful part of your icon reaches the edges or sits in the corners, the mask clips it and the icon looks cut off. The fix is almost always to add padding so the artwork sits inside a centered safe zone. The "Safe zone" preview and the padding slider in upload mode are built to solve exactly this.

What Google expects

Square. A 1:1 aspect ratio. Non-square icons get squished or cropped.
A multiple of 48px. Google recommends sizes that are a multiple of 48, such as 48, 96, 144 or 192 pixels. Provide a large source and let the browser scale down.
Visible on light and dark. A pale or transparent mark can vanish against Google's white or a dark theme.
Centered with breathing room. Leave padding so the rounded mask never clips the artwork.

What the package contains

Upload mode generates a single ZIP with favicon.ico (containing 16, 32 and 48 pixel images), standalone PNGs at 16, 32, 48, 96, 192 and 512 pixels, an apple-touch-icon at 180 pixels, a site.webmanifest file, and a ready-to-paste HTML snippet for your page head. Drop the files in your site root, add the snippet, and clear your cache.

A note on URL mode accuracy

Because your browser blocks scripts from reading the pixels of images loaded from another domain, URL mode can show you how a remote favicon looks and report its dimensions, but it cannot run the deeper pixel analysis that upload mode can. To get a full review with cropping detection, save the icon and load it in upload mode, or upload your original source artwork.