: Replace all images when search engine crawler visits site I have written code that will detect when a user is a search engine and i dont include css files when this happens to save bandwidth.
I have written code that will detect when a user is a search engine and i dont include css files when this happens to save bandwidth. I was also thinking i could replace ALL images on the page with a 1px placeholder. Is this an ok thing to do?
Search engine bots cant see what the image contains so there is no need to be loading large images when the bot cant even view them. If i replace with a 1px image it will hugely increase load speed since i have an image intensive website.
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That's a very bad idea and your site will suffer in the organic search rankings.
For one, Google does have image recognition abilities and so your assumption that the bot can't "view" the image is wrong. And two, the algorithm does render pages to decide whether they are not mobile friendly and if your pages are delivering different content to users and to search engines; and if either of those is thought to be true, your rankings will suffer.
What you're essentially trying to do is trick the bot to believe your site is different / better than it actually is. Google never responds well to being tricked.
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