Favicon not appearing in Google Search

Shopify Discussion

Topic summary

A Shopify store’s favicon is displaying correctly in browser tabs but not appearing in Google Search results, despite previously showing up.

Troubleshooting attempts:

  • Changed favicon pixel size to 48px in code, which caused it to disappear from Chrome tabs as well
  • Reverted to original 32px size, restoring browser tab display but not Google Search visibility

Recommended solutions:

  • Request a new Google crawl through Search Console
  • Update the favicon link code with proper attributes (missing size attribute and using older rel value)
  • Use online favicon generator tools to create properly formatted favicons for all devices and browsers
  • Reference Google’s official favicon documentation for technical requirements

Key issue: The current implementation is missing the size attribute in the HTML link tag, which may be preventing Google from recognizing the favicon properly. Favicons can behave inconsistently across different browsers and services.

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Can I get some help with the website of my client please? The favicon was appearing previously but no longer appears on Google Search now. I tried to change the pixel size in the code itself to 48px but when that didn’t work and the favicon also disappeared from the Google Chrome tab when I opening the site, I just returned it to the previous 32pixels. Now the favicon appears on the Google chrome tab but still not on Google search.

i don’t know what else to do. Can someone help please?

website: https://www.arabiceduhub.com/

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Hi,

Reference this, https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/favicon-in-search
Try requesting a new google crawl, If that doesn’t work update your link code and request another google crawl.

Favicons can be mysterious due to each browser, service and device handling them differently… You can also use this online tool to test your website and create all the possible types of favicons for all devices plus the files to upload and HTML for the theme.liquid file. - https://realfavicongenerator.net

Current - Only issue’s are rel is using an older value (should still work) and missing the size attribute.

Suggestion 1 - Updated rel and added size.

Suggestion 2 - Based on googles reference.

Regards