Title: WP dramatically bloating website size
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# WP dramatically bloating website size

 *  [Chris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/forumusr/)
 * (@forumusr)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-dramatically-bloating-website-size/)
 * This is one thing I cannot figure out the logic behind. I built a site for a 
   client, an artist. It is fairly basic with various plugins, and does have about
   ten gallery pages with images. These images are not huge, maybe 1400px max in
   either direction. If you put all the images in a folder, it would be probably
   30-40mb.
 * I began making a backup, and the site is now apparently 838mb. You read that 
   right. 838 megabytes.
 * The backup hangs, takes forever or simply cannot execute, I let it run for 25
   minutes and it was still “generating backup”. Let alone email or download with
   any efficiency.
 * I know WP creates different sizes and crops of some images for future use in 
   some way on the site. But 838mb from a simple gallery website?
 * Is there a plugin or some way to go through and slim this down a bit? Remove 
   unused images? I’m baffled.

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