What are the reasons for placements of favicon, meta and links?

The instructions of adding a favicon in the code.

To add a favicon to your website, either save your favicon image to the root directory of your webserver, or create a folder in the root directory called images, and save your favicon image in this folder. A common name for a favicon image is “favicon.ico”.

Next, add a <link> element to your “index.html” file, after the <title> element, like this:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <title>My Page Title</title>
  <link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="/images/favicon.ico">
</head>
<body>

<h1>This is a Heading</h1>
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>

</body>
</html>

My question is, why in particular should the favicon be placed after title element?
Does it really matter?

What about the metatags, title, links for stylesheets and favicons. Is there an order to follow. I know it must be placed in the head.

Thank you in advance

Hi. This suggests there is no particular enforced order for the elements inside the head element.

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Thank you so much for showing me

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