[Support request] Pictures: which size to choose?

[Giovanni]

Hi everyone,

I have to write an article for the blog which contains many high resolution images (jewels).

I usually load 1200×1200 compressed images.

I would like to go down the resolution so as to lighten the load of the page but I’m afraid that then they look bad “grainy”.

In the article I will have to insert about 30/40 images with about 3000 words of text.

Advice?

[David]

Hi there,

You could limit their size to the width of the container they sit in. As a rough guide a single post template with sidebar requires an image of around 768 – 800px wide to fill the content width.

Best thing to do is to test some images to see how they look with less pixels.

And use a Lazy Loading plugin so they don’t load unless the user scrolls to them

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