Google pagespeed / lazy image load
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Hi,
we are using the apache module of google pagespeed. It works really great, helps a lot. But today I've asked me one question:
Does the "lazy load" feature for images harm the ranking?
The module reworks the page to load the images only if the are visible at the screen. Is this behavior also triggered by the google bot? Or are the images invisible for google?
Any expirience about that?
Best wishes,
Georg.
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this does a pretty good job of explaining lazy load
http://www.thesempost.com/lazy-loading-images-likely-will-indexed-google/
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hey that was a fast response i usually dont get that response from google lol .. anyway post an update, ok? would like to know the answer aswell..
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Yesterday, I've written a support mail to bing webmastertools. Surprisingly I got a very comprehensive answer within hours! Thumbs up!
The answer: "Yes, you are right. Since this lazy load feature is a 3<sup>rd</sup> party application, as initial troubleshooting steps and to isolate the issue, please try to turn off this feature on your end."
Well, I try to turn off the lazy load for the specific page and see what's happening.
Best wishes,
Georg. -
i think i already answered this question
" what i know is that anything generated by javascript is unreadable by any search engine robot"
so probably thats the reason why its not found on image search engine .. anyway ill wait for other answers too
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Hi,
test google versus bing:
I am searching results for
site:schicksal.com Freitag, der 13.
Bing, organic: http://goo.gl/bfXAU0 - article found on 1st position
Bing, image search: http://goo.gl/EXDSdv - no search resultsGoogle, organic: http://goo.gl/VIi5C6 - article found on 1st position
Google, image: http://goo.gl/m5SRjA - main article image is found on 1st positionI've done some other quick checks with Bing: The big images are NOT found at the image search, only the teaser images which are on the overview pages.
So, can anybody confirm this behavior? Do Bing have a problem with the lazy load of google.pagespeed?
Best wishes,
Georg.
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im curious too what i know is that anything generated by javascript is unreadable by any search engine robot.. they just dont know that language its client side .. but the thing with lazy load is that the content is there just the image is not loaded until its shown on screen.. i mean the tags wrapping up the image.. if webmaster tool "fetch as googlebot" could fetch it then you dont have to worry anything.. but still i wanna know others opinion too
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Just tried to use the Google Webmaster Tool "fetch as googlebot" - the lazy loaded images where shown on the screenshot.
But the question remains: Is it possible that the google bot is not seeing the images for the ranking because the are loaded with javascript?
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