: Is it better for SEO to use margin or padding around images? I'm trying to style the distance of text around images and I've experimented with margin and padding. For testing purposes I tried

@Pope3001725

You should resize an image manually, rather than using styles to resize it. As reducing the file size will improve your download and load speed.

Additionally, the effect of resizing an image via styles on rendering performance is small but present (at least when using background-image)

From www.artlebedev.com/tools/technogrette/html/browser-performance/

"It seems that modern browsers don’t know how to optimize such tasks
and redraw the stretched image every time something is changed on the
page."


In regards to using padding vs margin, whether or not your image is actually resized depends on the the box-sizing property w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_box-sizing.asp
Based on your description, it sounds like you are using the box-size: border-box mode which preserves the overall width and decreases contents size when padding is added.

At the end of the day, unless you are drastically resizing your image, you may not notice any real difference in performance and therefore Page load score.

But if you are using large images and scaling them down significantly, swapping those images for smaller ones may make a noticeable difference.

Since you are interested in optimizing your site for SEO, I suggest you have a look at developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=google.com, where you may discover some things which may be having even more of an impact.

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@Smith883

Doesn't effect. Google bots just crawl through the pages unlike the normal HTML pages that users view as. The bots feed on robot.txt files at the time of indexing for SEO purposes. It crawls through the urls being fed to it by the system eg, in xml format.

So, the images wrapped around with padding or margin is of least importance to google robots while they are crawling through your pages.

Check this link for more info

Google Bots Crawler and how they work

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@Michele947

View ( that what client see) in webpage don't have (in normal case) impact on seo .
Google robot reads text (html),and don't see webpage as human .

Only case that view can have negtive inpact on seo is when you have invisible (the same color as background etc.) text on site .

Scaling down images is good idea ( faster site = better user experience = better seo ) ,but only when you change size(server side - php for example) of the file (that is sent to browser) . Changing only width and height wont give you anything ( form seo point of view )

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