LinkedIn image sizes for link previews

Last updated: September 20, 2026.

Size figures on this page are placeholders. They are not marked verified because we have not re-checked LinkedIn’s current documentation.

When someone pastes a URL into a LinkedIn post, the site fetches Open Graph tags and builds a link preview. That preview is not the same as an image you upload directly to a post. This page is about the fetched card: og:image, title and description on a public URL. The recommended pixels in the table are placeholders we have not re-checked against LinkedIn’s current help article, so they stay unverified. A landscape 1200-wide PNG with a short headline is still the safest shape. After you deploy, use Post Inspector on the canonical https URL. Logged-in-only articles, PDF gateways and infinite-scroll apps often preview as a blank box.

Recommended LinkedIn size

LinkedIn recommended image sizes
PlatformImage typeRecommended sizeAspect ratioMax file size
LinkedInLink preview1200 × 627 px1.91:15 MB

Official page to re-check:https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a521928

How LinkedIn crops your image

The feed card is landscape and slightly shorter than a classic 1200×630 OG file in some clients. Our table lists 1200×627 as a working default. LinkedIn tends to center-crop. A logo in the top-left padding can survive; a caption along the bottom edge may not.

Company page shares and personal feed shares both read the public HTML. If your CMS serves a different template to bots, Inspector will show whatever the bot received — which may not match what you see while logged in.

LinkedIn is slow to drop a cached image. A new file at the same path can sit behind the old preview for a long time. Give each campaign a unique image URL, then inspect the article URL rather than the PNG.

Three common LinkedIn mistakes

  • Using a vertical infographic as og:image

    Tall graphics get sliced into a thin landscape strip. The hook line at the top of the infographic never appears in the card. Design a separate 1.91:1 title card for the URL.

  • Pointing og:image at a CMS thumbnail

    WordPress “medium” sizes are often 300 pixels wide. LinkedIn will upscale them and the type will look muddy. Export a 1200-wide file and reference that URL in the tag.

  • Inspecting a staging host that robots block

    Post Inspector cannot log in and will not store a preview from a host that returns 401. Test on production with a 200 HTML response.

Inspector versus the live feed

Post Inspector is the source of truth for what LinkedIn parsed, not the preview widget inside your CMS. If Inspector shows the right image and the feed does not, the post may have been created before the scrape. Create a new share after a successful inspect.

og:title on LinkedIn is often truncated earlier than on Facebook. Keep the on-image headline short even if the meta title is longer. Do not duplicate a paragraph of subtitle text on the canvas; it will be unreadable at feed width.

Create a LinkedIn-sized OG image

Opens the generator with the LinkedIn size preset selected. Nothing is uploaded.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers about LinkedIn preview images.

What size should a LinkedIn link preview be?

Use a landscape file around 1200×627 pixels as a working default until we verify LinkedIn’s help docs. Stay near 1.91:1 and keep type inside the inner margin. Direct image uploads to a post can use other sizes; this page is only about og:image on a URL.

Why does LinkedIn show a generic globe instead of my image?

The crawler never received a usable og:image: relative URL, a blocked host, a non-200 response, or tags injected only after JavaScript. View the raw HTML, then run Post Inspector. A file larger than the (still unverified) limit can also be skipped.

Do I need LinkedIn-specific meta tags?

LinkedIn reads Open Graph. You do not need a linkedin:image tag. Put a correct og:image, og:title and og:description on the public page and inspect it.

Can I use the same file as Facebook?

Yes. A 1200×630 PNG is close enough to 1200×627 that one file usually serves both, as long as you leave padding for the extra few pixels of crop. Unique files are optional, not required.