Google needs explicit width and height specifications for images

Frank B

• January 21, 2022 14:15

Google evaluates the ranking of a website based on its good usability and structure. You can check this with PageSpeedInsights for the websites. If I now call up a Wordpress post of mine with a PhotoGallery image series in the Masonry view in PageSpeedInsights, PageSpeedInsights complains about the missing explicit width and height specification for the images in the gallery.

Therefore, it would be very good for the Google ranking and the website quality if PhotoGallery would output the explicit width and height information for the images in the gallery.

More infos: https://web.dev/optimize-cls/?utm_source=lighthouse&utm_medium=lr#images-without-dimensions

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  Zhanna Khachatryan

  • February 23, 2022 07:08

  Hello Frank, 

  Thanks for submitting the idea. 

  The height and width of masonry layout is getting calculated with JavaScript, so they can't have the specified dimensions in HTML. 

   

  I am sorry but technically it is not possible to fulfill your feature request. 

   

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  Frank B

  • February 24, 2022 15:04

  After the calculation of the images for the Mansonry layout with JavaScript, there must be some transfer of the calculated images to the website where, for example, the Alt/Title etc. are specified. Can the script not also transmit the size of the calculated images?
  It would be very unfortunate if there was no way to do that. 

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