favicon.ico 500 error when fetching robots.txt

Question

I have an error 500 on my example.com/robots.txt page.

Could this cause any SEO / crawling issues? It's just the favicon , but you never know.

Answer 1

When your browser requests the /robots.txt path, it also automatically requests the /favicon.ico path to display an image in the url bar.

A crawler almost certainly won't also request /favicon.ico when it requests /robots.txt, and even if for some reason it did, I would be very surprised if it caused any issues.

You should be fine.