Why do we use version on favicon? Google regularly checks favicon versions back to 2.0.10

[FrankWarius]

It's a minor problem - and you can close it immediately. But my daily quota of Google crawling requests is currently 150 per day, of which about 5 are redundant favicon request.

time	request
15.01.23 03:41	https://wbt.warius.info/public/favicon-192.png?v=2.0.11
15.01.23 03:41	https://wbt.warius.info/public/favicon-32.png?v=2.0.11
15.01.23 03:41	https://wbt.warius.info/public/favicon-152.png?v=2.0.11
15.01.23 03:41	https://wbt.warius.info/public/favicon-128.png?v=2.0.11
15.01.23 03:41	https://wbt.warius.info/public/favicon-180.png?v=2.0.11
15.01.23 03:41	https://wbt.warius.info/public/favicon-196.png?v=2.0.11
15.01.23 04:54	https://wbt.warius.info/public/favicon-32.png?v=2.1.7

Statistics of the last 90 days

Vers	Okt 2022	Nov 2022	Dez 2022	Jan 2023	Summe
2.0.10		6	13		19
2.0.11	1			6	7
2.0.13		6	3		9
2.0.16		13			13
2.0.17	1				1
2.0.19	1	1		10	12
2.1.10			2		2
2.1.12			12	1	13
2.1.13			6		6
2.1.14			4		4
2.1.15			8	7	15
2.1.2		4			4
2.1.4			1	2	3
2.1.5	2				2
2.1.6		2			2
2.1.7	1	8	12	2	23
2.1.8		4			4
2.1.9		4	10		14
Summe	6	48	71	28	153

[fisharebest]

All static files (/public/...) have a version parameter.

• For stable releases, this is the webtrees version.
• For dev releases, this is the timestamp of the file.

This allows the site owner to add long cache lifetimes to these files - which helps performance.

It would require special code to exclude the version string from favicon.ico. I don't think it would change google's behaviour? If you wish to experiment, the code is here: https://github.com/fisharebest/webtrees/blob/7f657e2ddb4d0e724ae03063fd8b1b90664dc594/app/Helpers/functions.php#L54-L70

But my daily quota of Google crawling requests is currently 150 per day

Recently, I have noticed that I see very few Google crawlers, and many Bing crawlers.

Yesterday was 6000 Google, and 50000 Bing. Last year, these numbers were reversed.

[FrankWarius]

It was more a question than a request for change. favicon is static and it's better to treat all static content the same.

Yesterday was 6000 Google, and 50000 Bing.

Are You sure that is the daily rate and not the monthly total, Our booth side have approximately 9,000 records (so bing visited every of Yours record 5 times on a daily base).

May daily average is

	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan
bing	59	284	1.308	1.295
google	158	201	171	162

My monthly total

	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan
bing	1.824	8.531	40.548
google	4.901	6.022	5.315

Do You use pretty or ugly URLs

[fisharebest]

Are You sure that is the daily rate and not the monthly total

Yes - but this is for all the webtrees sites on my server.

Do You use pretty or ugly URLs

Always pretty URLs.

[FrankWarius]

Thanks