Don't conform
![Don't conform](/content/images/size/w2000/wordpress/2020/02/Don27tConform2000k-001.jpg)
Squarespace can be frustrating with respect to adding photos as individual images. Takes a long time. Squarespace recommends limiting images to 500k. I’ve tried that, but Lightroom often tells me that it can’t make an image that size. I’m probably doing something wrong. Doing a quick, unscientific test using the quality slider in Lightroom.
![Copper Star Coffee, Phoenix, 2020. This is the full size JPG. I think it’s around 14MB. Slow as molasses.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71229df9a61eb777aa9262/1580949772768-K0T487A3TIKRE28P0Q6N/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kLkXF2pIyv_F2eUT9F60jBl7gQa3H78H3Y0txjaiv_0fDoOvxcdMmMKkDsyUqMSsMWxHk725yiiHCCLfrh8O1z4YTzHvnKhyp6Da-NYroOW3ZGjoBKy3azqku80C789l0iyqMbMesKd95J-X4EagrgU9L3Sa3U8cogeb0tjXbfawd0urKshkc5MgdBeJmALQKw/Don%27t+Conform-001.jpg)
Copper Star Coffee, Phoenix, 2020. This is the full size JPG. I think it’s around 14MB. Slow as molasses.
![Smaller version. 80% quality, about 7 MBs. Surprised the file size is still that big. Faster but still slow.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71229df9a61eb777aa9262/1580949857782-PJ6OFIRLJSIFOO5FBEVM/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kLkXF2pIyv_F2eUT9F60jBl7gQa3H78H3Y0txjaiv_0fDoOvxcdMmMKkDsyUqMSsMWxHk725yiiHCCLfrh8O1z4YTzHvnKhyp6Da-NYroOW3ZGjoBKy3azqku80C789l0iyqMbMesKd95J-X4EagrgU9L3Sa3U8cogeb0tjXbfawd0urKshkc5MgdBeJmALQKw/Don%27t+Conform+small-001.jpg)
Smaller version. 80% quality, about 7 MBs. Surprised the file size is still that big. Faster but still slow.
![1.8 MB. Much faster.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71229df9a61eb777aa9262/1580950021827-3Y59TRVL6B2W0YUW4WS2/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kLkXF2pIyv_F2eUT9F60jBl7gQa3H78H3Y0txjaiv_0fDoOvxcdMmMKkDsyUqMSsMWxHk725yiiHCCLfrh8O1z4YTzHvnKhyp6Da-NYroOW3ZGjoBKy3azqku80C789l0iyqMbMesKd95J-X4EagrgU9L3Sa3U8cogeb0tjXbfawd0urKshkc5MgdBeJmALQKw/Don%27t+Conform+2000k-001.jpg)
1.8 MB. Much faster.
I doubt anyone will be able to see a difference on a phone. Maybe not even on a computer. If so, I need to do a better job of remembering to export at about the 1 MB size. Squarespace automatically creates a few versions of the file for different devices, so that slows things down. I’m sure they also want to discourage larger file sizes in general. Man, I wonder how much storage space they have. Do their servers take up warehouses the size of Nevada? WordPress had a better photo management system. I sometimes miss it, but there were a lot of things about WordPress I don’t miss.