Google Search Console: Image size smaller than recommended size

The AMP Validator reports a subset of the issues that Google Search Console flags. Google Search has additional requirements beyond AMP in order to best integrate AMP results into Google’s search results. So that is why there is a discrepancy.

The AMP plugin returns the full (original) image as uploaded to WordPress: https://github.com/ampproject/amp-wp/blob/42fe1c1b24d848a2ef599ee47cc9e052faa05411/includes/amp-helper-functions.php#L798-L807

@strictlyonlinebiz In your schema.org metadata I see:

{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@type": "BlogPosting",
    "author": {
        "@type": "Person",
        "name": "Udegbunam Chukwudi Emmanuel"
    },
    "dateModified": "2018-09-26T10:07:46+00:00",
    "datePublished": "2017-08-14T15:00:41+00:00",
    "headline": "Solved: This Item Isn’t Available In Your Country – No Root No VPN",
    "image": {
        "@type": "ImageObject",
        "height": 640,
        "url": "https://i2.wp.com/www.patchworkoftips.com/blackbee/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/This-Item-Isnt-Available-In-Your-Country-1.png?fit=360%2C640&ssl=1",
        "width": 360
    },
    "mainEntityOfPage": "https://www.patchworkoftips.com/solved-this-item-isnt-available-in-your-country-no-root-no-vpn/7101/",
    "publisher": {
        "@type": "Organization",
        "logo": {
            "@type": "ImageObject",
            "height": 32,
            "url": "https://i2.wp.com/www.patchworkoftips.com/blackbee/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-CHEW.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1",
            "width": 32
        },
        "name": "Patchwork Of Tips"
    }
}

Note the image is only 360×640 at the original resolution. One solution would be to add letterboxing to the image to add margin to either side. This will require you to re-upload the image, however.

@westonruter *sighs* reuploading images in 147 posts is something I just don’t think I have the time/strength for. I just leave things as they are and hope some solution comes up that doesn’t require editing old posts and reuploading images. Thanks sir

I have filed an issue to add warnings when a post lacks a featured image with the required dimensions: https://github.com/ampproject/amp-wp/issues/1812

Coming up with some way for the plugin to upscale/letterbox smaller images retroactively would be challenging to do in the plugin, though I know it is even more of a challenge to do manually.

The image itself is not the issue. It is the Schema.org metadata. You can use the amp_post_template_metadata filter to customize the image field to either remove it or change it to something else.

For example:

add_filter( 'amp_post_template_metadata', function( $data ) {
    unset( $data['image'] );
    return $data;
} );

That should remove the image entirely for Google Search Console, but then it will likely complain about there being no image at all.

@westonruter could you give us an example of replacing all featured images with just one image instead of removing it entirely? Thanks

could you give us an example of replacing all featured images with just one image instead of removing it entirely? Thanks

No, because this would also violate the guideline: “Images must represent the marked up content.”

@westonruter ???♂????♂????♂? Thanks

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You can do so here.

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