Title: Image size
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Image size

 *  [kustv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kustv/)
 * (@kustv)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-size-99/)
 * Hi,
    this is not necessarily theme related but I found the support here very 
   competent and helpful, so I would like your opinion on this: I was wondering 
   about image size and requests. I have a lot of smaller images which result in
   multiple requests, but if I combine them into a couple larger images, the resulting
   images are much larger than all the small ones combined. So what would you think
   is better – having many small images with more requests or using less images 
   with a higher total mb size?

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 *  [Ben Ritner – Kadence WP](https://wordpress.org/support/users/britner/)
 * (@britner)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-size-99/#post-6511950)
 * Hey,
    What is this referring too? Are you talking about a background or something?
   can you post a link?
 * Kadence Themes
 *  Thread Starter [kustv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kustv/)
 * (@kustv)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-size-99/#post-6511989)
 * Hi,
    no, not background images, just images in general. I have a lot of smaller
   images beside each other so I thought combining them to one would result in less
   requests, but like I mentioned the total mb size of these combined images is 
   larger than all the small ones individually combined. So I don’t know what would
   be better for performance.
 *  [hannah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hannahritner/)
 * (@hannahritner)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-size-99/#post-6512061)
 * Hey krustv,
    Sorry for the delay. This is really up to you. Typically a bunch
   of smaller images will load better than one giant image, but I don’t know what
   dimensions you’re using so I can’t really say. If you post a link it would make
   it easier to give better input.
 * Hannah
 *  Thread Starter [kustv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kustv/)
 * (@kustv)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-size-99/#post-6512069)
 * Hello Hannah,
    I am referring to icon type images, size is around 150x150px. 
   They are used for product features, similar to these ones: [http://www.nugonutrition.com/products/free/](http://www.nugonutrition.com/products/free/)(
   the blue circles) Each image is around 50-70 kb, and I have 4 of them. I tired
   combining them into two images, but then each image was 200 kb, so obviously 
   more than 4 x 50/70.
 *  [Ben Ritner – Kadence WP](https://wordpress.org/support/users/britner/)
 * (@britner)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-size-99/#post-6512087)
 * Unless you using tons of images like that (over 30 on a page) I think it would
   be better and much easier for you to just use different images. For speed focus
   on caching and optimizing scripts.
 * Kadence Themes

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