Title: WP Gallery image size
Last modified: November 25, 2021

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# WP Gallery image size

 *  [mayy3321](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mayy3321/)
 * (@mayy3321)
 * [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-gallery-image-size/)
 * I can make a WP Gallery with columns. No matter how many though, the gallery 
   sets sizes as 100vw.
    That seems very inefficient, and no doubt crashes your 
   google scores. Can’t it do better?
    -  This topic was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/).
      Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Developing with WordPress
      topic

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 *  [George Appiah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gappiah/)
 * (@gappiah)
 * [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-gallery-image-size/#post-15102103)
 * I’m not sure I get what you’re talking about.
 * 100vw means 100% of the **viewport width**… basically, the full width of the 
   screen, which is a relative value for every device type, and not an absolute 
   or fixed width.
 * Why is this a problem or “inefficient”?
 *  Thread Starter [mayy3321](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mayy3321/)
 * (@mayy3321)
 * [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-gallery-image-size/#post-15111738)
 * If your gallery has 4 columns, then each pic needs 25% of the viewport width,
   not 100%
    This means if your screen is 4000px wide, and you have pic sizes 1000-
   4000px wide, it would choose 4x4000px = 160000px to display instead of 4x1000px.
 * Is this a problem? Every page speed/load scorer thinks so.
 *  Thread Starter [mayy3321](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mayy3321/)
 * (@mayy3321)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-gallery-image-size/#post-15212794)
 * Is this just a problem with WP, that you can’t deal with anything with columns

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [mayy3321](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mayy3321/)
 * Last activity: [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-gallery-image-size/#post-15212794)
 * Status: not resolved

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