Google Search

[Thomas Cermak]

Hi Guys,

I'm not sure if this is a support request or a feature request. I'm just learning more about how Google's search bots scan pages but I've noticed through the search console that they don't pick up on images which are lazy loaded through echo. Looks like Google's bots don't complete the subsequent http requests. Does anyone know of a way around this?

Thanks!

Thomas

[Raphael Eidus]

I would advise not using echo on any images that are above the fold as you want those to load as fast as possible for your users. This should help google know what images are important.

Additionally, google's spider has improved a lot and started executing javascript

[brianchristopherpeck]

I do most of the heavy critical-rendering-path optimization for my team and @raphaeleidus is absolutely correct. If you lazy-load images above the fold your google page speed score will drop. This is one of Google's crawling and ranking factors. Check your pages score here to see if you implemented this package correctly and what images are above the fold on Desktop and Mobile...
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/
The above test will give you screen-shots to see what appears to google-bot before the load event