Favicon History Viewer

See every favicon a website has ever used, pulled from the Wayback Machine archive. Track brand redesigns, spot icon changes over the years, and download historical versions. To check a site's current favicon setup, use the Favicon Checker or extract all current icons with the Favicon Extractor.

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How to use the Favicon History Viewer

  1. Enter a domain - Type any website domain (e.g. google.com or apple.com) into the search box.
  2. Browse the timeline - All unique favicon versions found in the Wayback Machine are displayed in a grid with their capture dates.
  3. Filter by year - Use the year buttons to focus on a specific period and track when rebrands happened.
  4. Download any version - Click Download on any historical favicon to save it, or click Archive to view the full Wayback Machine page.

Want to create or update your own favicon? Use the Favicon Generator, or check your current favicon setup with the Favicon Checker.

Frequently Asked Questions

All historical favicons are sourced from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, which has been crawling and archiving websites since 1996. We use their CDX API to find unique favicon snapshots and deduplicate them by content hash so you only see distinct versions.

The Wayback Machine doesn't crawl every page of every site on every visit. Favicon coverage depends on how frequently the site was crawled and whether the crawler followed the favicon URL. Small or newer sites may have sparse coverage. The archive also prioritizes certain pages over others.

Historical favicons from third-party sites are their respective owners' copyrighted assets. This tool is intended for research, brand history documentation, and personal reference. For your own brand, create original favicons with our Favicon Generator or use the Favicon Package Generator to create a complete set.

We check multiple favicon paths (/favicon.ico, /favicon.png, /apple-touch-icon.png, etc.) against the Wayback Machine CDX API, which itself queries a large index. Response time depends on the Wayback Machine's current load and how many results exist for the domain.