New Search Console AMP Warning:
“Image size smaller than recommended size”
If you’re trying to get a future benefit from Google by implementing AMP in your pages and to select the type of your schema as Article, NewsArticle or BlogPosting (or use wordpress blog themes and activate amp plugin), probably you’ve seen this new Google AMP warning:
This is specific to the markup you use in your AMP articles. The strange thing is that when you run the page through the AMP validator and the structured data testing tool, it comes up as valid and It does not show any kind of error or warning!
What’s the real problem?
According to google description:
The structured data in the AMP refers to an image that is smaller than google recommended size. This may prevent the page from appearing with all AMP-related features on Google Search, and may also prevent your Discover cards from appearing with large images (leading to decreased website traffic and user engagement).
Warnings include non-optimal pages that may cause errors in future. Affected pages could still be shown as amp in search results but as google description, This may prevent the page from appearing with all AMP-related features on Google Search and it should be addressed.
How to fix it?
Using larger images in structured data will solve this, based on article image guidelines:
- Only a marked-up image that directly belongs to the article should be specified.
- Images should be at least 1200 pixels wide.
- Every page must contain at least one image (whether or not you include markup). Google will pick the best image to display in Search results based on the aspect ratio and resolution.
- Image URLs must be crawlable and indexable.
- Images must represent the marked up content.
- Images must be in .jpg, .png, or .gif format.
- For best results, provide multiple high-resolution images (minimum of 800,000 pixels when multiplying width and height) with the following aspect ratios: 16x9, 4x3, and 1x1.
For more details see google guidelines
