At 7KB, the favicon often makes up over 10% of total page size. At 256x256px and having only two colours, I think there's plenty of room to slim it down.
I'm also curious why HTTP/1.1 is used as it's not 1999 any more.
I'm also curious why HTTP/1.1 is used as it's not 1999 any more.
SVG is allowed in favicons.
https://news.ycombinator.com/y18.svg appears to be in the orange bar for me.
Not sure why, but this really helps me use HN on my Wii.