One day I was trying to figure out why my 404 page was pulling a larger than usual load on my server (my 404 page has a lot of crap in it) and figured out that when someone was trying to get my favicon.ico the server was trying to return a full 404 page, so if anything, uploading a favicon.ico took care of that problem.
Aren't favicons purged if someone uses a cache cleaner? My threads from GFY I send to my desktop lose the middle finger icon and are replaced with a standard IE icon after I reboot and my cleaners run.
favicons are for the guys who have the spyware installed that are going to let your affiliate sales be stolen
Having a favicon is not a good way to try to see if you have bookmarkers for the last several years.. Modern browsers try to pull it up on entry whether bookmarked or not.
I think prior to IE 5.0 it was helpful, but not since then.
I use them because I got sick of seeing all the failed attempts to retrieve them in my logs, lol.
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