Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25889587-20150815042241/@comment-25968376-20150817170528

Kevsuc wrote: Yeah, to think that many people are accessing the site through mobile, it could consume so much data for them. However, making it smaller decreases the size of the image as well... or is it?

No, you're not generating new images. You're just telling the browser to make them appear smaller, but the physical file size is still the same. Take a look at Tricoros linked example with 40 vs 50px. They are both linking to the same image.