Always reduce image sizes before uploading them to your website. Using large images will cause your website to load slowly or not at all on mobile devices. Also, your hosting costs may increase due to using up your allocated disk space.
Large Image – 7,023,611 bytes (from phone, for example) On a webpage, this large image will not look any better than the reduced image below, however, it will be VERY slow to load, especially on mobile. This image is more than 37 times larger than the reduced one below!
Reduced Image – 189,075 bytes (after reducing size to 904 pixels wide) This image looks just as good as the large one above and loads extremely fast!
