Isn't it silly that a tiny favicon requires yet another HTTP request? How can I put the favicon into a sprite?

Question

Everybody knows how to set up a favicon.ico link in HTML:

Answer 1

Does it really matter?

Many browsers load the favicon as a low priority so that it doesn't block the page load in anyway, so yes it's an extra request but it's not on any critical path.

The accepted solution is horrible as until the JS has been retrieved and executed all the DOM elements below will be blocked from rendering and it doesn't reduce the number of requests!