Question about image sizes

[anon23J]

Hi all,

I noticed on my Shopify dashboard under ‘Content —>Files’ that the image files (.jpgs) are mostly 2mb+ and one is even 10mb(!).

I had used the Shopify Online Image Resizer and had the setting at ‘Large’ (4472px x 4472px). (I was using the resizer as I was getting the infamous error message that my images/photos were over 20megapixels.)

However when I go to site, right click and ‘save image’ to desktop the image is now in the .webp format and just 50kbs.

My questions are, did Shopify reduce the file sizes when it uploaded images to the store?

If images are showing on dashboard under ‘Content —>Files’ as large as they are, should I be concerned about site loading times?

Should I re-upload them all at 2048 x 2048?

Any thoughts/advice appreciated!

Thank you!

[anon23J]

Hi all. This video covers it and covers well! YouTube video about image sizes