{"id":2012,"date":"2007-01-21T21:50:51","date_gmt":"2007-01-21T16:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/01\/is-your-favicon-hogging-your-hosting-bandwidth\/"},"modified":"2020-05-22T16:57:06","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T11:27:06","slug":"is-your-favicon-hogging-your-hosting-bandwidth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/01\/is-your-favicon-hogging-your-hosting-bandwidth\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Your Favicon Hogging Your Hosting Bandwidth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all run <strong>cool favicons<\/strong> to highlight the brand of our websites and blogs on browser tabs and url bars. But have you ever checked the <strong>size of your favicon<\/strong>? Your beautiful favicon might be of a huge file size and could be the hidden cause of your increasing hosting bandwidth costs.<\/p>\n<p>I read this article on Scott Hanselman Computer Zen, who was in for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hanselman.com\/blog\/FavIconicoCanBeABandwidthHog.aspx\" rel=\"noopener\">a surprise when he checked his bandwidth statistics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Yes, my <strong>favicon.ico used 27 GIGS of bandwidth<\/strong> in the month. Yikes. Turns out my icon was 70k, as I made it a wonderful high-quality &#8220;Vista&#8221; icon in an attempt to make things pleasant and everything for folks. Of course, I didn&#8217;t noticed when it was taking up over 11% of my monthly bandwidth.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He switched to a <strong>simpler favicon<\/strong> with 3 resolutions at 16 colors which is under 4k, and saved his monthly bandwidth by 25GB. I never realized that Favicons could be so large. <\/p>\n<p>I created my blog favicon using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2006\/03\/design-and-create-your-own-favicon-by-microangelo-icon-editor\/\">Microangelo Icon Editor<\/a>. There are so many <strong>free online favicon creating tools<\/strong>, which can easily convert any image to a favicon, and it becomes essential you check the favicon size and optimize it, or a huge hosting bandwidth bill may surprise you.<\/p>\n<p>Looking for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2006\/07\/free-hosting-of-favatars-and-favicons-at-myfavatar\/\">free favicon hosting<\/a> &#8211; Try MyFavatar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all run cool favicons to highlight the brand of our websites and blogs on browser tabs and url bars&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-domain-hosting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}