How to Add or Change Your Site's Favicon

Your favicon is the small icon that appears next to your site's name in browser tabs and bookmarks. On a Carrot Editor site, you set it from the Site Identity section at the top of Image Audit, under Media in your site's admin.

Applies to: Carrot Editor sites: motivated seller sites published starting November 2025, and any Carrot site published from February 2026 on. On an older site, the favicon is the Custom Site Icon under Design > Branding; see Uploading Your Logo & Custom Site Icon.

Prepare your favicon image

Shape — square works best. Any other shape gets cropped to a square.
Size — at least 128 × 128 pixels. 512 × 512 pixels is recommended.
Design — keep it simple. It shows at a very small size, so a single letter or a simple mark from your logo reads better than your full logo.

Add or change your favicon

Open Image Audit for your site. You can also get there from your site's admin: Media > Image Audit.
Find the Site Identity section at the top. The Favicon box is beside your Logo.
With no favicon set yet, click Choose Favicon. To change an existing one, hover over the favicon and click Replace.
Pick an image from your media library, or upload one from the Upload files tab.
Click Select.
If the image isn't square, a crop box appears. Drag it around the part you want to keep, then click Crop Image.

You'll see a Favicon set (or Favicon replaced) message, and the Favicon box previews your icon in a browser tab next to your site title.

If you see "Image must be at least 128x128px": the image is too small. Pick or upload a larger version and try again.

Check that it worked

Open your live site in a new tab and look at the tab's icon. Browsers hold on to old favicons for a while, so if you still see the old one, do a hard refresh or check in a private window.

Remove your favicon

In the Site Identity section, hover over the favicon and click Remove. You'll see a Favicon removed message.

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