Favicon Checker (SEO Audit)

Validate a website's favicon and icon setup.

This Actor checks:

• <link rel="icon"> and related icon tags in the page HTML
• Default /favicon.ico availability
• Apple touch icons (apple-touch-icon*)
• Web app manifest (<link rel="manifest">) and whether the manifest is reachable / parseable

It returns per-page results in the dataset and also stores a SUMMARY and REPORT in the default key-value store.

Typical use cases

• SEO audits (missing favicon / broken icon URLs)
• QA checks before shipping a new website theme
• Monitoring for regressions (favicon suddenly 404s)

Input

• Start URLs: pages to check (homepages recommended)
• Optional crawl controls: followLinks, maxPages, maxDepth, sameDomainOnly
• Validation options: checkDefaultFaviconIco, checkDefaultAppleTouchIcons, checkWebManifest

Output

Dataset items

One item per processed page, including:

• hasFavicon, bestFaviconUrl
• validated icon candidates with statusCode, contentType, and ok
• warnings / errors

Key-value store

• SUMMARY - aggregated totals
• REPORT - summary + simplified per-page results

Example API input

{
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://example.com" }],
  "followLinks": false,
  "checkDefaultFaviconIco": true,
  "checkDefaultAppleTouchIcons": true,
  "checkWebManifest": true,
  "requestTimeoutSecs": 30
}

Quick start

Store page: https://apify.com/scrappy_garden/favicon-checker

Paste this into Input and click Run:

{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://example.com/"
    }
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}

Outputs (what you get)

• Dataset: Dataset items typically include fields like: url, statusCode, hasFavicon, bestFaviconUrl, iconCount, okIconCount, brokenIconCount, manifestPresent, warningCount, errorCount.
• Key-value store: REPORT, SUMMARY

Tips (trust + predictable results)

• Start with 1–3 URLs to validate behavior, then scale up.
• If a target blocks requests, enable Proxy and/or slow down concurrency in Input.
• Use the SUMMARY / REPORT keys (when present) for automation pipelines and monitoring.

Related actors

• broken-link-checker (https://apify.com/scrappy_garden/broken-link-checker)
• canonical-url-checker (https://apify.com/scrappy_garden/canonical-url-checker)
• meta-tag-analyzer (https://apify.com/scrappy_garden/meta-tag-analyzer)
• security-headers-checker (https://apify.com/scrappy_garden/security-headers-checker)

Search keywords

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