
visitors empty their cache, their copy of the favicon.ico file that was 
associated with the bookmark of your site will also be lost. </P>
<H2>Conclusion</H2>
<P>The "favicon.ico" facility is by no means essential to your website's 
operation. In fact, few people even notice its existence, and its really too 
small to put anything useful in it. However, creating one can save your site 
some bandwidth if you have created a <A 
href="http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/custom404.shtml" target=_top>custom 
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