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While browsing a website, you must have noticed a tiny image that appears next to your WordPress website title, these tiny images are popularly known as WordPress Favicon. First Introduced in March 1999 by Microsoft along with Internet Explorer 5’s newly added feature “Favorite” tab. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Microsoft has changed the name of bookmarks to Favorites in their Internet Explorer 5 version and provided an option to include favorite icons just beside the URLs. These Favorite icons are now spoken out as “Favicon<\/strong>“. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, you can also find that these WordPress Favicon are located at your web browser’s bookmark and on your browser’s home screen as shortcut buttons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These WordPress Favicons not only look beautiful, but also help to enhance user experience, easy brand recognition, and build trust. So, in this article, we will try to cover all the aspects of WordPress Favicon and How can you easily create and add to your website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But first, you must learn, what is the exact definition of WordPress Favicon. Let us get started!<\/p>\n\n\n

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What is WordPress Favicon?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

WordPress Favicons are small icons usually of size 16×16 pixels that represent your brand and are located near your page that you can easily see at your browser’s tab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier, when Google Analytics<\/a> was not a thing, Favicons were used as a tool to determine web traffic. But now, it is well known for enhancing UX and brand recognition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to it, having a WordPress Favicon helps in brand recognition. Since it can be easily visible on your browser tabs, bookmarks, history archives, and so on.  They can also be used as a website’s shortcut on small devices such as smartphones or tabs. It helps to save users’ time and lets them easily identify the website to browse without any difficulty. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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What are the advantages of using WordPress Favicon?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Apart from Brand recognition and enhancing user experience, which we have already discussed the advantage of using WordPress Favicon is it assures a visitor that they are browsing the right website and are on the right page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suppose, you have opened many tabs in your browser, as the number of tabs increases, it will hide your website’s title as shown below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At this point, Favicon helps you to identify your website quickly so that you can easily switch over it. Even, you can ask your visitors to add the website shortcut on their browser home screen or small devices such as smartphones for easy and quick access to your website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After all, one of the major goals of every website is to provide a unique user experience so that visitors can easily visit the website again and again. This is what WordPress Favicon helps in your WordPress website, helping in establishing strong brand recognition and enhancing user experience to the next level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now let us see, how can you create a beautiful WordPress Favicon for your website.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

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How to create a WordPress Favicon?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To create WordPress Favicon the first thing you need to do is to decide the size of WordPress Favicon and for what devices it should support. However, there has been a complete list of the different resolutions of Favicons are available that support various browsers and platforms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in this post, we will use the most recommended and widely accepted resolution, so that it becomes easy for you to create a WordPress Favicon for your website easily without any confusion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are some of the best tips for creating WordPress Favicons<\/h3>\n\n\n\n