Jason Bassford wrote: > Bad behaviour (causing > unnecessary traffic) as a default on the part of a browser should not > be condoned.
Let's see here. Assume you get 1000 pageviews a day from 100 people. A request for /favicon.ico is something like what? 30 characters? Plus a response about the same size (if you "touch favicon.ico")? And this happens once per user? That's 3K worth of traffic. Add a 2K favicon and you end up with 63K of traffic. Instead, add <link> based icons to every page of your site, all pointing to the same icon. The <link> tag will amount to I dunno 60 bytes per HTML page. Plus a 2K icon downloaded once per user. That's 60K for the HTML plus 60K for all the icon downloads. 120K. And that's not counting the request overhead. Sure looks like the favicon.ico is much more bandwidth friendly. --Mike
