June 1, 2008 at 6:48 pm
Been too long since I last blogged (again), so here I am with just a tiny little tidbit.
Google changed its favicon a few days ago, and it got quite a bit of coverage. I just wanted to add one observation: the old icon was 1,406 bytes, the new one is 1,150 bytes. That's 256 bytes smaller. Just going out on a whim and guessing that if Google gets somewhere in the range of one million requests for that icon a day, the new icon will save them roughly 90 gigs a year ... which honestly doesn't seem like that much for Google.