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🔍 Found in a recent web performance audit: favicon.ico → 301 redirect → broken URL → returns 13 MB uncompressed HTML ⚠️ Even tiny assets can slow your site if misconfigured. Check static files (favicon, images, CSS, JS) — small issues add up #WebPerf #WebPerformance #Frontend #DevTips

14/8/25, 5:45 pm2 reposts15 likes

Andy Davies

@andydavies.me

14 Aug 2025

That’s a classic example of something that’s often missed — many years ago came across a pair of load balanced servers where only one had the favicon and then other was serving a few hundred KB error page So many things request favicons so I always recommend adding them