max-image-preview
A robots directive that sets the largest image preview a search engine may show for a page: none, standard or large. CrawlCheck records it in each page's directives and counts max-image-preview:none among the settings that leave a page as a bare title in results.
What max-image-preview does not show
It governs the preview only; it does not stop images being crawled or indexed.
Terms this definition uses
Related terms in Indexing and discovery
Whether a page can be found and kept, separately from whether it can be fetched.
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Questions about max-image-preview
What is max-image-preview?
A robots directive that sets the largest image preview a search engine may show for a page: none, standard or large. CrawlCheck records it in each page's directives and counts max-image-preview:none among the settings that leave a page as a bare title in results.
What does max-image-preview not show or guarantee?
It governs the preview only; it does not stop images being crawled or indexed.
Which area of the glossary does max-image-preview belong to?
Indexing and discovery: Whether a page can be found and kept, separately from whether it can be fetched.
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