Title: optimizing images
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# optimizing images

 *  Resolved [mettekristof](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mettekristof/)
 * (@mettekristof)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/optimizing-images-2/)
 * Hi,
 * We are trying to optimize our images in wordpress to improve loading time.
 * But when uploading an image in WordPress multiple sizes and files are created
   on our ftp, which takes up a lot of space. Why are all these different size-versions
   created and how can we avoid it?
 * Regards,
    Mette

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 *  [leejosepho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leejosepho/)
 * (@leejosepho)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/optimizing-images-2/#post-5652841)
 * WordPress make all the various sizes so you can select the desired size in pages
   and posts. [https://wordpress.org/plugins/optimize-images-resizing/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/optimize-images-resizing/)
   is a plugin that will remove the unnecessary sizes, but I have not used it enough
   to have any experience with anything else it might be able to do. Also, it only
   optimizes the total number of images, not the actual images.
 *  Thread Starter [mettekristof](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mettekristof/)
 * (@mettekristof)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/optimizing-images-2/#post-5652896)
 * Ok thanks! We tried it and it definitely cut out a lot of the unnecessary files.
 * Thanks for the advice.
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/optimizing-images-2/#post-5652900)
 * I don’t think your website’s load time is related to the amount of thumbnails
   WordPress creates in the dashboard, unless you’re talking about the dashboard’s
   loading time?
 *  Thread Starter [mettekristof](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mettekristof/)
 * (@mettekristof)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/optimizing-images-2/#post-5653119)
 * No it seems loading time was mainly connected to the size of our images and our
   slider, which we have corrected now.

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/optimizing-images-2/#post-5653119)
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