#GOOGLE OPTIMIZE IMAGES HOW TO#
It's no surprise then that today on the Official Google Webmaster blog, Google shared some helpful tips on how to effectively optimize your website's visual content and images to get found in Google's Image Search. My guess is you're seeing unrelated effects there.There's no doubt about it: the visual content revolution is upon us, as is evident by the infographic craze, the popularity of websites like Pinterest, and the success of visual content on social media sites like Facebook and Google+. But there is a trade off from giving more functionality to page speed.Īs long as you have the as fallback (in the picture / source srcset configuration), and redirect or keep the old URL, nothing would change for Image Search. The funny thing, embedding these tweets like this really probably kill the page speed of this page. What did I miss? What worked best for your images?- 🍌 John 🍌 May 1, 2021 Want more links? Here's our guide to images:, and our guide for responsive images: (10) If you host your images on a CDN, hopefully you can redirect as well: Google Images takes longer to reprocess, and if the old URLs stop, they may drop out for a while, until the new ones are picked up.
webp, set up redirects for these images on your server. If, after all of this, you need to move from.
Keep in mind, it will be slow to communicate these changes to Google: svg or something like that, do not forget the redirects. (9) If you need to change file names because you are going from. This is the optimal configuration, but it can be hard. Also keep in mind that not all browsers support super-modern formats, so check your user stats too.- 🍌 John 🍌 May 1, 2021ĭepending on your site's setup, you may be able to use responsive images ( ) to include modern formats together with your previous image formats. WebP might be a format to try, has more suggestions. There's more at /O9IxSbIVKU- 🍌 John 🍌 May 1, 2021Īgain, a simple way to try it out for a handful of images is. specify the image size (again, with a plugin, often) /wsJY5MLpBO- 🍌 John 🍌 May 1, 2021Īnd then there's: load the really big images in your image editor, and see if there are compression settings you can use to save them with the same format in a smaller size. make images the right size (however you're displaying them) WP can do this for you, plugins can do it too. use image lazy loading (especially if they're below the fold). (6) Here are ways to optimize your images and the pages they are embedded on without changing the filename: These things can be hard to get perfect, and you usually don't need to make them perfect.- 🍌 John 🍌 May 1, 2021 You can get books on optimizing images for the web. PSI: Take some of the popular images landing pages in Page Speed Insights: Are you seeing speed issues which point at image size issues? "Serve images in next-gen formats"? "Properly size images"? "Efficiently encode images"? /ffN9dAjKOB- 🍌 John 🍌 May 1, 2021įWIW, there's "no simple guide to complete image optimization" (I'm sure someone will make one now though :-)). (4) Use Google Page Speed insights to determine what changes you can make to improve your images: Are you getting lots of *useful* clicks from Google Images? If so, read on.
Is it really a problem worth focusing on? Check the Search Console performance report ( ), select "Search Type: Image", and look at the numbers. (3) Use Search Console to see how much traffic you are getting from image search: Not all sites get significant traffic from Google Images (so you might not need to worry about it), and you can do a lot to improve images without changing the image file URLs.
(2) Keep in mind, you might not get much image search traffic in the first place and if you do, you can do things to improve your images without changing URLs he said:īut first: don't panic. While tweaking my site, I noticed PSI suggesting to change some of my image formats, and realized it's worth mentioning this again. PSA: If you change your image URLs, and you care about Image Search, remember to redirect them. (1) Don't forget that if you change your image URL or filename, redirect the old URL of the image to the new one: But let's focus on John's advice around image optimization and not losing Google rankings, if possible. This comes shortly after John posted an excellent Google tutorial on video SEO for Google. John posted several tweets on Twitter with the information. Google's John Mueller posted a great thread on Twitter about considerations around how to make your images more optimized, so that your pages load faster, while also taking into account how that might impact your rankings in Google Image Search.
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