Guide to All Facebook Image Sizes in 2024

Every day I see brands uploading terrible quality images to Facebook. Images that aren’t properly optimized to meet Facebook’s image sizing are a needlessly common occurrence that can tarnish an otherwise stellar Facebook page or post.

In this post we aim to give you the knowledge you need to not only post images that are appropriately sized for every Facebook image type, but also to ensure that the images you post are of the highest quality (including what size images to use in your Gleam Facebook campaigns).

Did you know that using images properly can boost your engagement on posts by up to 300%?

The profile image is a square image that gets resized to 180 x 180px on desktop and 128 x 128px on mobile devices.

The image you upload should be 360 x 360px for optimum clarity on retina screens. This is twice as large as profile images are displayed on desktop.

For a business page, the cover photo will be resized to 820 x 312px on desktop and 640 x 360px on mobile devices.

By uploading a 1640 x 922px image your cover photo will be fully optimized for high resolution devices and also accommodate the differing formats of desktop and mobile cover photos.

It’s important to keep in mind that there’s a small 75px (150px if you’re uploading Retina) at the top and bottom of your image that will be cropped out for desktop display.

An event image will be displayed at 500 x 262px on desktop. The image will be adjusted to varying sizes when it appears on mobile devices or news feeds.

To ensure the best display across all devices the event image you upload should once again be twice as large as the displayed image’s size. This means uploading a 1000 x 524px image for your event.

Images accompanying links that are shared on personal pages & timelines are resized to 500 x 262px when displayed on news feeds. Facebook recommends that the ideal size for a shared link thumbnail is 1200 x 628px, as this will best serve high resolution viewing across devices.

If the image associated with the link is smaller than the sizes above, Facebook will create a 158 x 158px or 139 x 139px thumbnail instead. Due to this, the inclusion of larger images will aid your articles in garnering more attention.

Images you upload to a photo album will display at a maximum size of 998 x 748px in standard display, and up to 1440 x 880px in fullscreen mode. If you want an image to be displayed at maximum size on high resolution devices you should make sure your upload is at least 1996 x 1496px for maximum standard display or 2880 x 1760px for maximum fullscreen display.

If you want to avoid black bars appearing on the top and bottom or sides of your album images you should upload photos that are at least 1320 x 1040px for optimal display on high resolution devices.

The photo album display area has a minimum width of 660px and a minimum height of 520px. Smaller images will be accompanied by a black border to fill the minimum display size.

Photos you post to your timeline will appear 500px wide, with the height varying in order to retain the shape of the image. The height of an image cannot exceed 750px without some of the images being cut off on the timeline display.

In order to maximize the crispness of your images try uploading a photo that is 1000px wide, which is twice as large as the image’s displayed size.

Facebook ads can appear in multiple locations including mobile and desktop news feeds as well as down the right column of a page.

Facebook recommends that all advertisement images are 1200x628px. This will optimize quality on all devices and ensure the appropriate resizing of images across all advertisement styles & locations.

If you’re running your Facebook Competition with Gleam then a question we often get is what size should I make my Feature Image so that it shows perfectly when shared?

The standard Feature Image in the Gleam campaign is 540px wide and can be as tall as you like.

However Facebook recommends a size for Sharing of 1200 x 630px, which means that if you want your Feature image to look good on when shared on Facebook you must ideally use this ratio.

So we recommend using 1080 x 567px wide for Feature images that you want to look crisp in Gleam and also look good when shared on Facebook.

Sometimes you don’t want your Feature image to be constrained by the recommended Facebook dimensions. Business customers have the ability to upload a separate Share image for Facebook inside the Viral Share action.

This allows you to have a taller Feature image, but a fully optimised share image for Facebook.

If you have Gleam embedded on your own landing page then the Viral Share action will piggyback off your own Open Graph tags.

Below is an example of the tags you should setup:

<meta property="og:type" content="article"/> 
<meta property="og:title" content="Huawei P10 International Giveaway!"/> 
<meta property="og:description" content="Try your luck and win a brand new Huawei P9 at this week's Sunday Giveaway!"/> 
<meta property="og:url" content="http://www.androidauthority.com/huawei-p10-international-giveaway-761169/"/> 
<meta property="og:site_name" content="Android Authority"/> 
<meta property="og:image" content="http://cdn03.androidauthority.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/huawei-p10-and-p10-plus-review-aa-11-of-31.jpg"/>

Make sure you refresh the URL of your page via the Facebook Debugger after updating the Open Graph meta tags on your page.

When promoting your competition you’ll want to announce it on your Facebook page. The best way to do this is to create a custom post which is 952px wide for portrait or 1200x630px for Landscape (as seen below).

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