# Quick image resizing and markdown image dimensions **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/quick-image-resizing-and-markdown-image-dimensions/66812 **Category:** Announcements **Created:** [July 25, 2017, 9:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quick-image-resizing-and-markdown-image-dimensions/66812 "2017-07-25T21:29:52Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 25
### Author: ![elijah](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/elijah/32/104055_2.png) [@elijah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elijah) #### Post date: [August 3, 2017, 9:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quick-image-resizing-and-markdown-image-dimensions/66812/25 "2017-08-03T21:18:02Z")
> [@codinghorror](#): > > Count the chars! The hostname is 41 chars, and the image ID 40 chars in the first example. The full URL from `//` to `.png` is 104 chars. I bet you could shorten that URL a lot with a suitable CNAME. Register a WX.YZ host and assign two or three character labels there: ```plaintext //cdck-file-uploads-global.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/meta/ //dm.cd.cs/ ``` 44 versus 11. (Of course, Czechoslovakia doesn’t register hostnames anymore.) --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quick-image-resizing-and-markdown-image-dimensions/66812)._