I thought that Google Search Console had tools to test robots.txt and sitemap.xml files, but it has been a while since I have needed to do that.
For those wondering why favicon is in a directory, nowadays there are half a dozen different favicon files for different devices in different situations and there are online tools such as The Real Favicon Generator that will take a source image and make the variants for you. These come with a code snippet for head and the option to use a sub directory so that you don't clutter the root.
Maybe they should offer a robots.txt snippet too.
Fun fact, for a single page, you can base64 encode the favicon and shove it in the page, thereby not needing a separate file. Why would you want to do that? If you base64 encode all the images and add the scripts and stylesheets in, then you can have a HTML page that you don't have to upload, you can email it to someone. This is useful if wanting to share a design mockup.
For those wondering why favicon is in a directory, nowadays there are half a dozen different favicon files for different devices in different situations and there are online tools such as The Real Favicon Generator that will take a source image and make the variants for you. These come with a code snippet for head and the option to use a sub directory so that you don't clutter the root.
Maybe they should offer a robots.txt snippet too.
Fun fact, for a single page, you can base64 encode the favicon and shove it in the page, thereby not needing a separate file. Why would you want to do that? If you base64 encode all the images and add the scripts and stylesheets in, then you can have a HTML page that you don't have to upload, you can email it to someone. This is useful if wanting to share a design mockup.