Google Favicon
SearchVerify Google Favicon IP Address
Verify if an IP address truly belongs to Google, using official verification methods. Enter both IP address and User-Agent from your logs for the most accurate bot verification.
[This crawler is officially retired as per Google] Google Favicon is a specialized Google crawler that retrieves website favicons for use across Google Search, Chrome, and other Google products. It fetches small icon files such as favicon.ico or declared alternative icons in HTML. This bot does not index page content or affect Search rankings; its role is purely to collect icons that visually represent sites in SERPs and browser surfaces. Most sites allow it since its requests are lightweight. Crawl activity is minimal and typically occurs when Google detects new or updated favicon assets.
User Agent Examples
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.75 Safari/537.36 Google FaviconRobots.txt Configuration for Google Favicon
Not ApplicableUse this identifier in your robots.txt User-agent directive to target Google Favicon.
Completely Block Google Favicon
Prevent this bot from crawling your entire site:
User-agent: Not Applicable
Disallow: /Completely Allow Google Favicon
Allow this bot to crawl your entire site:
User-agent: Not Applicable
Allow: /Block Specific Paths
Block this bot from specific directories or pages:
User-agent: Not Applicable
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /api/Allow Only Specific Paths
Block everything but allow specific directories:
User-agent: Not Applicable
Disallow: /
Allow: /public/
Allow: /blog/Set Crawl Delay
Limit how frequently Google Favicon can request pages (in seconds):
User-agent: Not Applicable
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 10Note: This bot officially honors the Crawl-delay directive.