Should I use background image or IMG tag?

Should I use background image or IMG tag?

Use the tag in the following cases: When it is not just a design element, but also a part of the content, such as a diagram, logo, or a person. When you expect that people will print your page and want the image to be included by default. Google doesn’t index background images automatically.

Should I put background image in HTML or CSS?

When to use CSS background-image

1. Use CSS background images if the image is not part of the content. —
2. Use CSS background images when doing image-replacement of text eg.
3. Use background-image if you intend to have people print your page and you do not want the image to be included by default. —

What are some benefits to setting the background as image?

Pros:

• Background images are easy to display properly even at constrained proportions.
• Overlaying content over the top of a background image is very easy as you can simply treat it as if there was no image there so you can just apply regular positioning to any elements over the background image.

How can I change the color of SVG in IMG tag?

Edit your SVG file, add fill=”currentColor” to svg tag and make sure to remove any other fill property from the file. Note that currentColor is a keyword (not a fixed color in use). After that, you can change the color using CSS, by setting the color property of the element or from it’s parent.

Which is the best image format for SEO?

SVG is a XML-based vector image format that is, of course, always formed by text. Unlike other types of image formats like PNG or GIF, SVG has several features that are good for SEO.

What are the benefits of using SVG format?

Another added benefit of SVG being a text-based format is that search engines can read, crawl, and index your images. With other images, search engines need titles and descriptions in order to read your images, which means that search engines can’t crawl the actual contents of your image.

Are there any sites that use SVG for SEO?

In fact, some sites that we check-in daily like Google, YouTube, Twitter are already using SVGs in their website (similartech.com). As SVG usage trend goes upwards, there will be more webmasters transitioning from PNGs to SVGs, because really what’s not to like about SVG?

Why are SVG images lighter than raster images?

SVG images are much lighter than their raster peers because their dimensions are defined by mathematical calculations and not by millions of pixels. They carry a lot of information in a relatively small file size format (compared to the same file size of a raster image format).