h5bp/html5-boilerplate — pull request #1119 by alrra (2012-06-10 07:12:30+00:00)
Title: Smaller size favicon.ico

I really think we should have a smaller size favicon and this is (mainly) do to the fact that there are a lot of sites out there that use h5bp and don't change de default favicon and, more importantly, some of them don't even compress and/or cache it!

I know that browsers generally lazy load the favicon, but bytes sent over the wire are still bytes sent over the wire.

- Comparison:

![](http://i.imgur.com/w9fGz.png)

- Stats:

favicon.ico
Normal file size (in bytes)
Gzipped file size (in bytes)

old
1150
688

current
2862
824

new
318
209

Also the current favicon contains 3 different color depth icons. :\