FB debugger says that my og:image should be larger, even though it is large

Question

Check out this result of debugging an article using Facebook debugger.

It comes up with this warning:

og:image should be larger. Provided og:

Answer 1

First of all you need to upload an image that is more than 200 x 200 (for instance I've uploaded the maximum size that is 1500 x 1500). Some people say that the image width and height should be the same size. I've never took chances to check if it's right or not although.

After updating the image size the problem still exists and you'll need to add certain parameter to the og: image link in order to make Facebook debugger update the cache of the image.

For instance:

<meta property="og:image" content="http://bri.ge/img/brige1.png?t=12345?">

This is the parameter: ?t=12345?

Wait for about 5 minutes and the issue will be fixed.

Answer 2

It's a bit late, but I had this issue for after creating a new open graph image in photoshop. It didn't make any sense because in the debugger it still displayed the image that was found, which was 359x379. It still complained it was smaller than 200x200, though.

I did not try changing any other header tags, as I did not believe that was the issue.

Instead, I opened photoshop again and saved the image again. I saved it as a JPG at 85% quality -- and the difference was that I used "Progressive" instead of "Optimized". This fixed the issue immediately, although I'm not positive the "Optimized" setting was the issue.

Answer 3

what did i notice when i run into Scraped URL is that facebook is not able to see the picture at the same size like in the posts. For instance, copy the url of the picture which in Debug is to small, paste in to a browser and indeed the picture is very small. Now, go to your post, copy the url picture from your post, and paste in to the same or any browser. Now the size of the picture is big.

Answer 4

Your website's robots.txt file may be restricting Facebook crawler access to your website. When Facebook robot crawls it, it can't see the file. Upload the image to the root of your website.

The 200x200 pixel rule is important, use 400x400 to get better image quality through compression. Tested with png and jpeg images.

Answer 5

This was due to my CMS system redirecting the URL of the image. So the correct image showed up in the Facebook debugger, but FB was probably looking for the image size before the redirection took place, and then it had no size yet.

So I told my CMS not to redirect the URL of my images. How that works depends on what kind of CMS you are using.

Answer 6

I just ran into this problem and tried saving as a JPEG with slightly lower quality as another answerer suggested. Once I'd referenced that and tried again on the debugger page Facebook told me that, again, my image was too small, and instead it would use the old image, meaning the one it complained about the first time.

So I simply submitted the same URL once more and it stopped complaining. Basically it's one debug behind. Try refreshing the debug and see if it doesn't fix it for you.