I’d love to bump this up as the exact same thing is happening to about 5 sites of mine.
Did you ever find a fix? Can’t use Robots.txt to disallow because then Google won’t render the site properly. Google needs to be able to crawl each of these files, just not index them…
Let me know if you found anything or if anyone else has a way?!?!?!?!?
Hi guys.
Hope I can help you. This is the official advice from Google to noindex images without render issues.
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35308
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /
Just wanted to help.