Image too small [image_link]

What Google requires

Real pixels, today and in 2027

Today a non-apparel image must be at least 100 by 100 pixels and an apparel image 250 by 250. From 2027-01-31 the floor rises to 500 by 500 for every product, and Google recommends 1500 by 1500 for zoom regardless. The measured object is the actual file behind image_link: a thumbnail served by a CDN counts as its true size, whatever the original upload was.

What happens if you do not

Disapproval now, or silently on the deadline

Below the current minimum the product is disapproved outright. The more dangerous band is between the current and the 2027 floor: everything there works today and stops working on the deadline, all at once, across every product whose export pipeline emits small renditions. Feeds commonly reference a sized-down variant of the original image without anyone having chosen to.

How to fix it by hand

Point the feed at the original rendition

• Check what the image_link URL actually serves, not what the CMS shows: download one and read its dimensions.
• Most shops store a large original and export a thumbnail URL; switching the feed template to the original or a 1500-pixel rendition fixes the whole catalogue in one change.
• Only re-photograph products whose source image is genuinely small; upscaling counts as image manipulation and produces its own problems.

Which of our checks apply

3 checks apply, read from the scanner's registry

The scan fetches every distinct image URL, sixteen in parallel, and measures the pixels Google will measure. It reports three bands separately: below today's minimum, below the 2027 floor, and below the zoom recommendation.

• image_too_smallblocks
• image_below_recommendedunderperforming
• image_below_future_minat risk

The quicker way

Let the scan find them

Run the scan once and you know today which products will fail the 2027 minimum, while there is still time to fix the export instead of the emergency. The scan to identify errors is free and shows every finding before you pay anything. You only pay for the fix.

Scan your feed