In February 2018, Google updated its article schema document for AMP articles to require larger images in markup. Previously, the minimum requirement was 696 pixels wide and 300,000 pixels in total, but now it is 1,200 pixels wide and 800,000 pixels in total.
It appears amp pages on Newspaper use the max size of 696 pixels still for featured images, even if the original image is 1200px+.
Is there any way to change this by editing the mobile theme or amp plugin?
We are showing in many featured snippets without an image, where competitors with proper image sizes have images shown in their snippets.
Many thanks in advance
Anyone from support who can advise?
Hi,
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What you say is correct, there will be a solution found in this matter. Currently the thumbnail used will be a 696px size – http://prntscr.com/njtwz6
You could replace that size there with a larger thumbnail, there would be only one that is larger than 1200px – http://prntscr.com/njtxb9 – http://prntscr.com/njtxff
This would be a solution for the moment.
Thanks
Thanks for the info, much appreciated.
Will I have to regenerate thumbs after this?
Do you know of a way to just generate thumbs in that specific size as we have thousands of images and a paid API for image size reduction which will cost a lot to regenerate for many thousands of images and thumbnails?
Thanks
If that thumbnail size has been active there is no need to regenerate. If you just activated it, then it would be best to regenerate. The regenerate plugin has an option to skip the correctly sized images, so it should regenerate only the new size
– http://prntscr.com/nkx9v1
Try this with a single image from the media library – http://prntscr.com/nkxamh
Thanks
