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Facebook Cheat Sheet: Sizes and Dimensions
Filed under: Facebook, Social Media, Tools, Top10
Updated: October 20 2011
What is the size of the profile picture in Facebook? How wide is page of your brand? Here are all the numbers you need and you can even download a handy PDF Facebook cheat sheet.
Big picture for timeline
Width: 851px
Height: 315px
Profile picture for pages
Width: 180px
Height: 540px
Thumbnail
The image that is displayed next to the link when you click like or share somenthing.
Width: 90px
Height: 90px
Facebook page
The usable area of your brands Facebook page
Width: 520px
Height: Unlimited
Uploading pictures
JPG file of sizes in 1:1 scale
Width: 2048px
Height: 2048px
Pictures displayed in Facebook
This is the maximum size of the image as shown in slide show or album.
Width: 960px
Height: 720px
Facebook ads
Picture in the ad
Width: 110px
Height: 80px
Size: 5MB
Text in ad
Header: 25 characters
Body copy: 135 characters
Facebook status update
Status update length: 63,206 characters
Comment length: unlimited
Video
The maximum size of vide you can upload
Size: 1024MB
Length: 20 minutes
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Did we miss something? New changes? Let us know in the comments.
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Thank you! This is exactly the information I’ve been looking for lately, and you’ve compiled it in one place. I appreciate it.
The text link for the PDF doesn’t work. However, the image link works.
Thanks!
Thank you for letting me know, Casey. Fixed!
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Nice Post Pritt,
Guess you just missed the allowed no. of character in Facebook Questions.
It is 170 words.
Here’s my Article on FB questions: http://www.socialmediasimplify.com/2011/05/how-to-utilize-facebook-questions-best.html
Regards,
Syed.//
Thanks for adding that, Syed!
Thanks, that is very useful information. I hope you don’t mind if I use it for my Social Traffic Club (with your link of course).
Terrific information thank you for sharing. I have been wondering about this for a while and you made it so simple thank you. Cindy
Thanks, Karin and Cindy! Yes, Karin, you can use it and a link would be nice.
I single picture over 2000px in height will cause a repeat.
The height of Facebook iframe apps are not unlimited though, 700 px or so
Thanks for the cheat sheet, what a great idea to keep you reminded of it all.
Yes, I’m afraid you did miss something: application canvas pages – 760 pixels wide, unlimited height.
Johan (above) is wrong about IFRAMES in app. You can have unlimited length if you put in the relevant Javascript in your page to tell Facebook to make the page adapt automatically. See various examples I’ve built at http://www.facebook.com/natts.com
Dave
Facebook Developer Garage London
http://www.facebookgarage.org.uk
Great tool, thanks for sharing what must have taken a few hours to put together!
What sizes should the photos that appear above the status updates? Thanks and have a groovy day!
If you mean the five on top of your profile page then 97x68px.
Does anyone know the exact pixel height
of the area to the right of the profile picture area
above the iframe area
where the name of the business is located ?
Gene Evangelist
There is no fixed/definite height to that, because the browser renders the text using its own fonts, so it will vary from browser to browser and depending on what zoom settings each user is using. Also if the brand and tab names are long, they will go onto two (or more) lines.
As for “Pictures displayed in Facebook” goes, they changed this sometime in August 2011 … its now 960px for landscape photos.
You can read about it here in their official blog:
https://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=10150262684247131
I hope you concur and correct this.
Sorry, Shai! We changed the PDF and JPG but the text in the post itself was not updated. Thanks for letting us know. Fixed now!
Thanks for this great information , Regards
Thanks so much for this! I’ve been collecting notes and snippets for months. It fabulous to now have it all in one file.
Thank you for your comment, Tanya. I’m glad that this sheet has been of value to you!
Great & valuable information, this isn’t the first post from you that inspires or helps me : thanks!
great & up2date work!
one small addition: we just discovered that the post-thumbnail on mobile (at least the iphone-app) is cropped to something like 90×80.
Thanks Michael, We’ll try to check it out.
Facebook have recently increased the status limit to a ridiculous 63206 characters as I’m sure you know but that certainly doesn’t detract from this being a great little tool, thanks.
I have included it in the SMB Social Media Monitor (http://www.scoop.it/t/smb-social-media-monitor).
the thumbnail size is wrong.
facebook posts thumbnails till 115 x 115 pixel
Any thoughts on adding a favicon to your FB business page? Like how to do it?
Thanks for sharing this. I will be sure to link to this from my blog for others to use. Very helpful.
RW
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-increases-status-update-character-limit-to-63206/5754
Character limit is no longer 420.
There are social shopping sites, a simple objective to get the right information quickly is luboh.com it allows people to ask and tell their selected friends and also tell the world anonymously. Useful for people anywhere in the world to find how much products and services cost and where they can get them from. It also has price comparisons within a geolocation.
This is great information, thank you.
Thank you so much for this! You have no idea how many times PM’s have asked me the dimensions… I just kindly sent them the cheat sheet so that they never bug me again! haha! Thanks buddy!
Thanks Marc! That’s why we did it!
NICE! Thank you!
Thank you for this AWESOME post! I’m always trying to keep up with the different sizes of things and you sum it up very nicely on one graphic. thanks for the info!