I have a webapp for which I want to put a small image in the URL. Something similar to StackOverflow does:

I don’t know much about what is this and how it is achieved.
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That image is called a favicon. In your HTML head, insert the following:
It looks like this site can convert images that you have to *.ico files
Cheers!