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07-19-2003, 08:58 AM

I was looking through my stats, and see alot of referral errors for /favicon.ico. I know you can add a very small icon when someone comes to your site in IE or for someone that bookmarks your site.

If you don't use favicon.ico, is this one way you can see how many people bookmark your site?

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07-19-2003, 09:06 AM

Originally posted by malakajoe
I was looking through my stats, and see alot of referral errors for /favicon.ico. I know you can add a very small icon when someone comes to your site in IE or for someone that bookmarks your site.

If you don't use favicon.ico, is this one way you can see how many people bookmark your site?

Yes. Thats funny we were just chatting about this in a irc chat.

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07-19-2003, 09:07 AM

Originally posted by Mr.Teen

Yes. Thats funny we were just chatting about this in a irc chat.

This just will show IE users who bookmarked, correct?

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07-19-2003, 09:07 AM

yeah, thats one of ways to count bookmarkers

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07-19-2003, 09:08 AM

Originally posted by malakajoe

This just will show IE users who bookmarked, correct?

Not sure, it looks like mozilla doesn't use the fav icon, i could be wrong though.

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07-19-2003, 09:08 AM

Originally posted by matulo
yeah, thats one of ways to count bookmarkers

What is another way?

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07-19-2003, 09:09 AM

That can't be right. I have a shitload of those in my error docs. Seems more like every time someone visits.... but what do I know. Carry on.

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07-19-2003, 09:11 AM

Originally posted by TeenGodFather
That can't be right. I have a shitload of those in my error docs. Seems more like every time someone visits.... but what do I know. Carry on.

Does IE look for favicon.ico when it hits each page?

It does place the 'IE graphic' next to the url in a browser if favicon.ico is not present, so maybe it doesthen again maybe it doesnt.

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07-19-2003, 09:12 AM

Originally posted by TeenGodFather
That can't be right. I have a shitload of those in my error docs. Seems more like every time someone visits.... but what do I know. Carry on.

Well, the reason I came to that conclusion is because 92% of my vistors use IE.

favicon.ico comes up as a referral error in 3% of my unique vistors.

Anyone know for sure?

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07-19-2003, 09:12 AM

Originally posted by Fletch XXX

Does IE look for favicon.ico when it hits each page?

It does place the 'IE graphic' next to the url in a browser if favicon.ico is not present, so maybe it doesthen again maybe it doesnt.

Yeah, I'd like to know... if it only seeks it while bookmarking, then I have a LOT of bookmarkers.

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07-19-2003, 09:46 AM

Originally posted by austinth
I've been using one for Sleazympegs for a while now. I think they work really well, it makes your site stand out better in the surfers list of bookmarks. Bookmark my site, then close and reopen your browser and check your favorites and you'll see what I mean.

Umm. I think we all know what a favicon.ico is.

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07-19-2003, 09:50 AM

Originally posted by TeenGodFather
Yeah, I'd like to know... if it only seeks it while bookmarking, then I have a LOT of bookmarkers.

I seem to remember reading that IE 5 always asked for it the first time you visited a site so it could display it in the address bar but later versions just request it when a site is bookmarked.

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07-19-2003, 10:43 AM

If you include

link REL="shortcut icon" HREF="favicon.ico" TYPE="image/x-icon"

in the page head tags, IE will use the icon in the address bar regardless of whether the user bookmarks the page. If the page is bookmarked, IE saves the favicon with the link.

Mozilla (1.4b) will download it for use in the address bar, but doesn't save the icon when the page is bookmarked. At least none of my other bookmarked pages (with favicons) are displayed in any bookmark list.

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07-19-2003, 10:59 AM

Originally posted by malakajoe
I was looking through my stats, and see alot of referral errors for /favicon.ico. I know you can add a very small icon when someone comes to your site in IE or for someone that bookmarks your site.

If you don't use favicon.ico, is this one way you can see how many people bookmark your site?

... NO, you can´t count bookmarkers that way, becasue netscape (from v6.0) requests the favicon.ico on every "first" request of an url.

IE only requests the favicon.ico when a site got bookmarked, it will show up next to the site description in your favourites folder.
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