How many kb per photo is reasonable for a good balance between a fast loading time and good resolution images?
I would at least place a 2-3Mb image into Sitely and on Publish Sitely will do its magic to optimise the placed images for the web…
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I forgot about the optimization function, and I had been optimizing my images to about 100 kb, which I’m thinking now might be too small for retina displays.
If Sitely optimizes the images when it’s published, does it matter if I use huge images (50 Mb) during the design, or should I go to the effort of optimizing those images down to 2-3 Mb when I place them on the pages (before Sitely optimizes them again)?
i’ve used some hugh images with Sparkle. Publishing-wise it doesn’t matter, but the ones i’ve used sure slowed down the software for me on the editing side, but we’re talking 100mb images. After publishing, everything is otimized with webp properties.
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The only drawback is the project file will grow with the originals you add in, and resizing/recompressing a huge image during the publishing phase can be a bit slower than a more typical 3-5MB image, but it definitely will work.
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Thanks so much, Duncan. I wish I had asked you this before spending so many hours shrinking down my images to a few kilobytesthat will not look good on retina displays or high resolution displays., But I’ll know better for the future. I shouldn’t have listened to Google 