{"id":2091,"date":"2007-02-11T21:16:37","date_gmt":"2007-02-11T15:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/02\/animated-favicons-draw-attention-to-your-site\/"},"modified":"2013-09-21T20:14:02","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T14:44:02","slug":"animated-favicons-draw-attention-to-your-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/02\/animated-favicons-draw-attention-to-your-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Animated Favicons : Draw Attention to Your Site"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was under the impression that favicons<\/strong> need to be icon files (.ico) that needed to be uploaded and linked between your sites head tags. Then I spotted this dancing animation in my browser url bar and firefox tab…<\/p>\n

I was visiting the Digital IT Blog<\/a> via a site tracker referrer link when I spotted this animated gif that they had used as a favicon. Out of 15 open tabs, that was the only tab that was drawing my attention repeatedly.<\/p>\n

I checked out the page source code and found that they had used this animated dancing gif<\/a> to link in the favicon shortcut. The size of the gif image was a huge 183kb (my favicon is only 2kb) and it took time for all the gif frames to load. But you instantly saw the first frame in the favicon and over a few more seconds the dance started further drawing your attraction.<\/p>\n

In modern tabbed browsers favicons are displayed on tabs<\/strong>, and while users open multiple tabs easily, drawing their attention with animated favicons can be useful to get them to visit your site first<\/em>. Some might say it is obtrusive and distracting. But I think is a tip you might just consider if it fits your site.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> Such image favicons do not work in IE as pointed in comments. So it is better to stick to .ico icons. Unless you can configure a script to detect the browser and accordingly decide which favicon to use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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