I recently read up on your article about content decay. One of our issues is page speed and I’ve been working on reducing speed load time. However, I’m no pro at coding or anything remotely related to techy stuff. I usually deal with marketing and design.

So with that background, my question is this: when uploading images, and writing their captions and alt tags, I do want them to appear in serps for image searches, but I don’t want to cause index bloat.

Are there any tactics you recommend I use to avoid this? I’ve already disable the images sitemap (just today), after reading that it’s not necessary and won’t remove my current images from the site.
This also leads me to ask a second question-how will I know (as someone that doesn’t know how to read html, js or anything of that nature) if disabling the image sitemap has been effective in improving load speed? Thanks for the help!