# Would it be worth resizing uploaded images (to save space)?

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**Created:** [2016 年10 月 22 日 18:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/would-it-be-worth-resizing-uploaded-images-to-save-space/51901 "2016-10-22T18:35:42Z")\
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作者： ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
发布日期： [2016 年10 月 22 日 22:31 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/would-it-be-worth-resizing-uploaded-images-to-save-space/51901/6 "2016-10-22T22:31:54Z")

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You could certainly write a script to loop through all JPGs on the server and re-save them at a higher compression level, say 80% compression. That’d probably reduce size by half and is completely safe.

PNGs are a bit trickier to deal with.

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