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Serving several versions of images, 200,000+ products. Am I bothering Googlebot?

         

guarriman3

2:34 pm on Dec 21, 2020 (gmt 0)

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Hi,

I've got a website with 200,000+ products, with a specific URL for each one of the products (i.e., 200,000+ URLs).

I've inserted a photo of each product on each one of the URLs. I've followed the rules by Google of inserting several resolutions of the photos, in WEBP and PNG. The images are created dinamically in the server side.

<picture>
<source type="image/webp" srcset="mydomain/image/product-X_480_252.webp 480w, mydomain/image/product-X_680_357.webp 680w, mydomain/image/product-X_768_403.webp 768w, mydomain/image/product-X_1024_538.webp 1024w, mydomain/image/product-X_1600_840.webp 1600w">

<source srcset="mydomain/image/product-X_480_252.png 480w, mydomain/image/product-X_680_357.png 680w, mydomain/image/product-X_768_403.png 768w, mydomain/image/product-X_1024_538.png 1024w, mydomain/image/product-X_1600_840.png 1600w">

<img class="lazzy-responsive" src="mydomain/image/product-X_800_420.png" width="800" height="420" alt="Photo of Product X" title="Photo of Product X"></picture>


Now, within my logs, I see that Googlebot is crawling both versions of images (WEBP and PNG) and the following sizes:
- 1600x840
- 640x336 (this size is not explicitly shown, Googlebot decided to asked for it)
- 320x168 (this size is not explicitly shown, Googlebot decided to asked for it)

Some questions:
- Am I bothering Googlebot? I'm suffering from crawl budget issues, and I don't want to look like I'm cheating Google
- Should I show explicitly the 320x168 and 640x336 dimensions?

Thank you.