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No crawlable favicon in a Google-supported format

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Why it matters

Google shows the favicon next to search results and needs a crawlable, square (≥ 48×48) ICO/PNG/GIF/JPEG/BMP. SVG-only favicons aren't in Google's supported list.

How to fix it

Add app/favicon.ico and app/icon.png (keep icon.svg as an extra if you like).

Example

text
app/favicon.ico   → <link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" sizes="48x48">
app/icon.png      → <link rel="icon" href="/icon.png" type="image/png" sizes="512x512">
app/apple-icon.png → <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/apple-icon.png" sizes="180x180">

References

void seo reports 60 rules in this category. What search engines need from the raw response: status codes, titles and descriptions in <head>, self-referencing canonicals, one h1, crawlable links, Open Graph, icons, robots.txt and a sitemap with real dates.