It seems every week that a social network is changing layouts and requiring new dimensions for their profile photos, the background canvas and images that are shared on the networks. Limitations for social images are a combination of dimension, image size – and even the amount of text that’s displayed within the image.
I would caution against uploading oversized images to social media sites. They use aggressive image compression that often leave your images blurry. If you can upload a great image and compress the image with a service before uploading it, you’ll get much crisper results!
If you’re a designer, keep this infographic handy… and prepare for changes often. And be sure to download Illustrator and Photoshop files from GoDaddy to create your optimized social images at the appropriate dimensions.
Shortstack has also built the Ultimate Social Media Template Guide, a detailed 21 page PDF that thoroughly describes each and every image size used in social media!
Social Media Image and Ad Image Sizes
| Social Site | Profile Size | Cover Size | Share Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| 400px x 400px | 1500px x 500px | 440px x 220px | |
| Facebook Page | 180px x 180px | 828px x 315px | 1397px × 2048px or 2048px × 1456px |
| Facebook Group | 180px x 180px | 828px x 315px | 1200px x 630px |
| 110px x 110px | 161px x 161px | 1080px x 1080px | |
| 165px X 165px | 222px x 150px | 238px Width | |
| 400px x 400px | Between 1400px x 425px and 4,000px x 4,000px | 974px x 320px | |
| Tumblr | 128px x 128px | 500px x 750px | |
| YouTube | 250px x 250px | 2560px x 1440px | 1280px x 760px |
| Google+ | 250px x 250px | 1080px x 608px | 497px x 279px |
Social Media Video Sizes
| Social Site | Dimensions | File Size Limit | Specs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Twitter GIF | 530px x 265px (2:1) 1024px x 512px max | 5 Mb | < 350 Frames |
| Twitter Landscape Video | 1280px x 720px | 512 Mb | 2048K Bitrate |
| Twitter Portrait Video | 640px x 640px | 512 Mb | 1024K Bitrate |
| 600px x600px | 2.5 to 30 sec | mp4, H.264, VP8 | |
| HDTV or SDTV | 120 min or 4 Gb | mp4, mov, etc. | |
| YouTube | 240px × 180px Up to 4K | 2 Gb | 25 to 60 fps |
The 2016 Social Media Image Sizes Guide below explains to you what the best image sizes are for each social network and the image types to use. Every major social media platform is listed on here so you’re up-to-date with social media platform optimization. MakeAWebsiteHub.com
You would think that, by now, we’d have some standards on image sizes – especially on profiles. I’m pessimistic that the platforms will be working together anytime soon… so that means more work for you and me.
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Thanks for making my work handy.. these dimensions helps to create a infographics !!
This is a nice guide. Thanks for making it Douglas.
Thanks for this guide Douglas. This guide and issues one of my friend had with multiple resizing in Photoshop inspired me to make a Photoshop CC extension to take the time and pain out of making multiple sizes for social media dimensions. You can find the extension here: http://dam-photo.com/easy-web-resize-export-photoshop-cc-extension/
In short the extension panel will take the active layer and at the push of a button it will create covers or content photos in the dimension you mention in your article. The photos will be placed in a folder on the desktop ready for sharing on social websites. There is also 5 custom fields that allows you to resize any layer into 5 different dimensions in one go.
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Thanks Peter! I’ll spread the word on this.
This is helpful! FYI, in the table, you have switched the headers for “Cover” and “Profile”.
Very informative post indeed,thank you so much Douglas, You have shared with us a simple guide which help us a lot regarding Social Media Image Dimensions.
Keep sharing 🙂
Regards
Mairaj
I can’t believe no one has noticed that the Cover Size and Profile Size heading is reversed in the table.
We actually were notified but never had a chance to update it, thanks for the reminder! I think most folks just jumped to the graphic.
Unfortunately this isn’t of great help, optimal sizes for mobile devices don’t match what’s here, posting with the recommended sizes often cuts off parts when viewed on mobile devices
Daniel, thanks for that input! You may want to check out Shortstack’s Ultimate Social Media Image Size Guide!
Hey Douglas, thanks for the work you put into this project… Can we use this guide going forward in 2017 ?
The good folks at Make A Website Hub deserve the credit! I’ve just updated it with their 2017 edition!
This is such a great resource!! I use it almost daily. Thank you @Douglas Karr!
You bet! PS: I do, too!
The Gif size for twitter is 15 mb on web
Thanks for all this. It’s brilliant!
Wow. Good stuff. Thank you for keeping it updated!
I don’t agree with the charts, I can publish 1397 × 2048 or 2048 × 1456 pics on Facebook.
example: https://www.facebook.com/hussardbootcamp/photos/pb.1024345360990900.-2207520000.1490279003./1288103137948453/?type=3&theater
Awesome, thank you! I’m going to update the charts.
The downlink on Godaddy is not working and no easy way to notify GoDaddy.
Hi Paul, I was able to get a hold of them and test the form and it worked fine. Perhaps the email was sent to your spam folder?