If you’ve ever uploaded a photo to Facebook, only to find out that it doesn’t display the entire picture, you’re not alone. Nothing can be worse than uploading a photo that has important information, only for that information to be cut off because the image is not the right size. 

That’s exactly why everyone that uploads anything onto Facebook, especially marketers and social media managers, need to understand and know the dimensions of each picture. As one of the largest social media platforms today, Facebook can make marketers’ lives difficult by using a vast array of different image dimensions. 

What can be more frustrating is that Facebook dimensions are different from the image dimensions used on other social media platforms like Instagram and YouTube.

That’s why it’s incredibly important to be fully informed on the proper Facebook image size. In this guide, we’ll reveal to you all of the important Facebook post image size. The goal is to help you prevent a future scenario where your fire Facebook post is not displaying properly.

Table of Contents

• Facebook Profile Picture Size
• Facebook Cover Photo Size (Personal and Brand)
• Facebook Cover Photo Size (Group)
• Facebook Link Post with Images
• Facebook Post Image Size
• Facebook Event Cover Photo
• Facebook Stories

Facebook Profile Picture Size

Other than using an image for a Facebook post, the next most common image to be uploaded to Facebook is your profile picture. Your Facebook profile picture size is important to know because it will help you let others know who you are and is really the first thing users will notice about you or your brand.

Acceptable: 180 x 180 (pixels)

Recommended: 2048 x 2048

While you can go as low as 180 x 180, we recommend that you bump it up to 2048 x 2048 because your image will definitely come across more clean and crisp than a smaller image that might look pixelated and even, blurry. The important thing to remember about your Facebook profile picture size is that the ratio will always be 1 to 1, meaning whatever width you assign your image, just know that the height should be the same figure.

Facebook Cover Photo Size (Personal and Brand)

When it comes to the Facebook cover photo size, there are two things you absolutely need to remember: the cover photo dimensions are slightly different for personal and brand pages. 

If you are the social media manager of a brand, open up two tabs for Facebook, one for your personal profile page and the other for the brand page you’re managing. Do you see the difference? It’s very minor but you can see that for your personal page, the cover photo is directly behind your Facebook profile photo. Now take a look at your brand page. You can clearly see that the profile and cover images are separate, as the cover photo is directly to the right of the profile photo.

As we briefly touched on, the dimensions for both cover photos are slightly different so it’s important to pay attention to the details here.

Facebook Cover Photo Size (PERSONAL)

Acceptable: 851 x 315 (width x height)

Recommended: 2037 x 754

Facebook Cover Photo Size (BRAND)

Acceptable: 820 x 312

Recommended: 1958 x 745

For an example of a Facebook cover photo for a brand, take a look at the cover photo for the social media management company, Uniclix.

This cover photo measures perfectly at 820 x 312 and as you can see for yourself, it displays in great resolution and nothing about this cover photo says that something is missing is cut off. Uniclix features the important pieces in this cover photo, the tagline and website, and it’s what you would expect from one of the best social media planning platforms out there.

Facebook Cover Photo Size (Group)

Now you may be thinking what’s the difference between this cover photo and the previous two we just reviewed? That’s a good question and one that deserves its own section for a number of reasons.

One, and you probably have already guessed this, but the dimensions are also different! Another reason we wanted to give this its own section is that we want to illustrate to you what happens when you don’t follow the dimensions! Lastly, while there are a growing number of Facebook groups, by and large, these groups don’t pale in comparison to the number of company pages out there.

Facebook groups are pages about different topics that people can either join or ask to join. It’s a great place to engage with other people about certain topics. Here is the Facebook Group cover photo size.

Acceptable: 820 x 332

Recommended: 1958 x 793

Now take a look at this cover photo of a Facebook group called Penny Stocks Group.

While nothing may jump out at you to say that something is wrong, upon further review, we can see that the quality is severely lacking. This is obviously not a high-resolution photo and, in fact, it’s the exact opposite. 

What likely happened here is that the administrator of this group created this cover photo using much smaller dimensions than the acceptable 820 x 332 dimensions. When he or she went to upload it to this group’s page, it had to scale the image up to meet the required 820 x 332 dimensions. The end result is an image that is blurry and really lacking any quality.

We cannot stress enough that it’s vital to pay attention to the dimensions of the images you’re uploading to Facebook. Take the time to find the correct dimensions and use that as a guide to creating your artwork.

Facebook Link Post with Images

Often, you’ll find that when sharing a link, Facebook will show a featured image that goes with that link, if there is one available. If no images are available for these link sharing posts, then it will likely just show an empty, grey box. 

When you do share a link that does have an image, it’s also crucial to know the dimensions of this image. Here, take a look below.

As you can see in this post, social media management platform, UniClix, is sharing a link as a Facebook post. The link comes with a featured graphic and the graphic is neatly displayed within the boundaries. This is because UniClix has taken into consideration that there are size dimensions to follow for link sharing posts on Facebook and they have followed it.

Acceptable and Recommended: 1200 x 628 (width x height)

If you’re sharing a link to your latest blog, and you have an image attached to this blog, do yourself a favor and make sure that its aspect ratio is 1.9 to 1. A good way to do this is just by creating all images for your blog or website with this aspect ratio. That way, all the posts that you share to Facebook won’t have parts of the image cut off.

For those that don’t know yet, UniClix is an amazing social media management platform where you can create, schedule, and edit your social media posts. It’s compatible with all the big social media platforms, including Facebook, and most importantly, comes at a much more affordable rate than other social media management platforms. What’s great about UniClix is that even if you’re unsure about it, you can easily sign up for a 14-day FREE trial. If this is something you’re interested in, sign up for your free 14-day trial here.

Facebook Post Image Size

Okay, now that we’ve gotten the profile and cover photos out of the way, it’s now time to turn our attention to the Facebook post image size. 

Frequent Facebook users will commonly upload and share images and, much like the profile and cover photo, the dimensions of the image are very important.

Dimensions are key because as you’ve probably already seen in your Facebook feed, that these images can come in different shapes. You’ll find images that are square-shaped, landscape (wider), and portrait (taller). 

If you do choose to post a square image, just try to ensure that the dimensions for the height and the width are roughly and same and the resolution is as high as possible. Brands that use imagery to help tell the story of their brand will often use very high-resolution photos. When posting a square photo, here are the details you need to know.

Acceptable: 600 x 600

Recommended: 2048 x 2048

When posting a landscape style image, it’s going to be more wider than taller. It’s more common nowadays that images posted on Facebook are landscape and in order to post the perfect landscape image, you need to follow the proper dimensions. 

Acceptable: 1200 x 628

Recommended: 3000 x 1579

While this 1200 x 628 is a good baseline and one that most people and companies follow, if you care about the quality of your image, it’s wise to use larger dimensions (while still maintaining the aspect ratio of 1.9 to 1) in order to produce a higher-resolution image. 

Facebook Event Cover Photo

Going to a concert? Invited to a conference? These events will often be advertised on Facebook as an event. If you plan on creating your own event to broadcast to the world, you’ll need to know the size of your Facebook event cover photo.

This specific cover photo will also be in a landscape position and thus, it will much wider, than taller. Here are the dimensions you need to know.

Acceptable and Recommended: 1000 x 524 (width x height)

Facebook Stories

Another avenue for Facebook users to connect with their audience is through Facebook Stories. Stories are usually quick videos or images that users will share with their audience. And, like every other different type of Facebook image size, the dimensions for Stories are equally as important.

That’s because unlike many other Facebook images that prefer to use a landscape type of shot, Stories is the opposite, as it focuses specifically on portrait images.

Acceptable and Recommended: 1080 x 1920 (width x height)

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Last Word

As we’ve covered, there are many different types of images you can post and share on Facebook and it’s important to know the proper dimensions of each. Especially if you manage a Facebook page of a company, you’ll definitely want to ensure that your graphics come across as looking professional and not sloppy.If you’ve ever been tired of posting images one by one to Facebook, you’re not alone.

That’s why you can let UniClix, one of the best social media platforms on the market, to do all the work for you.

Using this tool, you can easily schedule out a month’s worth of posts and set the time for each post to go out. Or, you can take advantage of UniClix’s optimal send time features which allows you to schedule your posts according to the most optimal times. 

But when it comes to posting images, you might be wondering how would you know if it will turn out alright before posting it? Well, UniClix has you covered there too. You’re able to tailor your posts and preview them before posting so that you will have a good idea of whether or not your image will look good. And now that you know the proper Facebook image dimensions, there’s no reason why you shouldn’t be able to post amazing pictures using UniClix. 

Table of Facebook Image Dimensions