The left image shows the uploaded iPhone photo. On the right is a scaled down version.
The left image says it is 2560 x 1920 pixels. The right image is 1200 x 900 pixels.
For the left image there are 9 files in the media library, the original 4024 x 3024 pixels. WordPress does not use that in any post or page when you insert it from the Media file. The other 8 files were generated upon uploading.
- original file 9.97 MB
1024×768 200.01 KB
150×150 34.9
1536×1152 385.71
1568×1176 400.75
2048×1536 639.66
300×225 48.06
768×576 131.45
scaled 857.18 - total space of these “left image” files: 12,667.72 KB
For the right image only one additional file was created:
- original file 1.09 MB
768×576 130.31 KB - total space of the “right image” files: 1,220.31 KB
Using the original required more than ten times as much file space!
Can you tell the difference in quality?
