1 Weird Trick to Decrease Your Website’s Load Time

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If your website/web app doesn't use a favicon, then add the above code in your <head>. This is because even if you don't use a favicon, the browsers usually make a network call to get a favicon.ico in the root directory, and preventing that network call can save your website around 20 ms.

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