SVG Favicons Coming Soon and Other News

We have known for awhile that you can use SVG files as favicons but it can take time to update the site to include a how to use them and the links to the SVG files, but a new tutorial on how to add SVG files as favicons is coming soon. In the mean time we have started testing SVG downloads on the Animal section of Free Favicons the ability to download the original SVG file that the favicon PNG’s were created from. For example on one of the most popular animal favicons, the Paw Print, you will notice a new button that allows you to download the SVG file to use as a favicon as well as the original zip file download to grab the PNG and ICO package. You might want to grab both so you can provide options for those visitors that cannot see SVG favicons yet.

Look for the tutorial on how to use a SVG as a favicon soon and many more SVG downloads available soon.

Many thanks to PermaClipart for their help and useful API to connect our favicon PNG/ICO packages with the original SVG files they were created from.

In other news the main favicon generator has a new hcaptcha field added to it. We were having a number of bots constantly hitting the favicon generator form and decided it was time to do something about it. We are hopeful this will help prevent/slow down the bots so we don’t need to take any other measures.

Top 10 Favicons of 2017

A little late on the top downloaded icons for 2017 but wanted to share the top 25 icons that were downloaded last year. It has been an amazing year for FreeFavicon. We moved to a new server that has helped speed the site up and have seen a large increase in traffic over the year.

For those that are interested in 2017 we had over 150,000 downloads.

Color Star Favicon

Color Star Favicon

House Favicon

House Favicon

Computer Favicon

Computer Favicon

Football Soccer Ball Favicon

Football Soccer Ball Favicon

Cat Favicon

Cat Favicon

Shopping Cart Favicon

Shopping Cart Favicon

List Icon Favicon

List Icon Favicon

Newspaper Favicon

Newspaper Favicon

A Hand Drawn Heart Favicon

A Hand Drawn Heart Favicon

Business Man Avatar Vector Favicon

Business Man Avatar Vector Favicon

Butterfly Line Art Favicon

Butterfly Line Art Favicon

Bitcoin Favicon

Bitcoin Favicon

We have reset the counter on the top favicons page so it will be interesting to see what favicons are popular this coming year and what new icons might enter the top downloaded.

Have a great year!

Changes

There has been a long list of new things going on here at FreeFavicon and thought we would share some of the highlights.

New Hosting

It was not that long ago that we moved from Hostgator.com to a new host, but we have moved again. This time to a DigitalOcean server. On top of DigitalOcean we are also using ServerPilot to manage the account. Really liking the server stack that ServerPilot installs. You can learn more on their website, but we find the site is very quick to respond and fast to download files. Hopefully you notice the speed improvement. I highly recommend DigitalOcean and ServerPilot if you are looking for a new host for your website.

SSL

Along with new hosting we thought it was also a good time to start to secure things around here. Thanks to ServerPilot we have also turned on SSL so your browsing and creating of favicons is now secure.

Facebook Page

We had resisted creating a Facebook page all these years, but with the move to SSL and the URL changing all the likes we had previously on the Like button on the sidebar are gone, so we decided it was time to bite the bullet and start over with a new Facebook page and box.

Latest Icons

Want to know what new icons we have added to the site? We have moved the latest icons section from the sidebar to a new page. All those little icons on the sidebar was just slowing loading down across the whole site, not to mention those little icons were hard to see, so creating a whole new page just for the latest icons helps fix a few problems all at once. So go check out the latest icons that we have added.

Think that is all for now. Hopefully you notice some speed improvement on the site and thanks for visiting and using FreeFavicon!

Top 10 Favicons of 2016

This is the season for top ten lists of 2016 and we thought it would be a great opportunity to take a look at some of the most popular favicons that were downloaded from the site in 2016. Before we get it to the top ten list though a quick look at the download statistics for the site show we had just over 130,000 downloads of favicons from the site in 2016! That includes both icons that we created using the home page favicon generator, the more advanced icon maker and downloads of the pre-made favicon packages!

With all those downloads there are some favicons that stand out as the most popular, and while the list might favor the icons that have been on the site the longest and miss some of the newer favicons that have been added, I can see why these top ten icons are the most downloaded from the site. In many ways they are iconic of what people want their website to be remembered for.

Number 10 – Color Star Favicon

Color Star Favicon

Number 9 – A Hand Drawn Heart

A Hand Drawn Heart Favicon

Number 8 – Newspaper

Newspaper Favicon

Number 7 – Computer

Computer Favicon

Number 6 – Business Man Avatar

Business Man Avatar Vector Favicon

Number 5 – Cat

Cat Favicon

Number 4 – Butterfly Line Art

Butterfly Line Art Favicon

Number 3 – House

House Favicon

Number 2 – Shopping Cart

Shopping Cart Favicon

Number 1 – Football Soccer Ball

Football Soccer Ball Favicon

Are there any icons you are surprised are on this list? Or what favicon did not make it?

We will be resetting the counts for the Free Favicon page today, so don’t be surprised if the page looks broken for a little while.

Have a great New Year and Holiday Season!

New Icon Size Added


Well it is now 2016 and to keep up with changes in favicon and icons FreeFavicon.com has made a few changes around the site. First up, to start off the New Year the top icons list has been reset to zero! That means if visit the FreeFavicons page it might look pretty bare for awhile. It will not take long to fill up again.

Second if you use WordPress you might now have a feature called a Site Icon. It is not available on all themes available yet but it is becoming more popular. Thankfully with a small tweak to our generation code for the downloadable icons we have included a 512 pixel size icon on all newly generated icons for download. That is the preferred size for a WordPress site icon so you can easily download an icon you can use for your WordPress website.

Unfortunately not all the previously created icons will have the new icon size but over 2016 we will be looking at adding the new size into the older icons. Not all will get the new size but if there is an icon you really want us to create a WordPress site icon size for let us know and we will look into getting it made.

The icon creators and generator are a little more difficult to add the new size to but in the next little while the new size will hopefully be added as well.