In what quality (image weight) should I publish a photo for an online store?

Question

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Each product card has an average of eight photos of 500kb in size. Should I reduce the weight of the photo, or leave everything as it is? If yes, up to what size?
Visually, it is difficult for me to distinguish the quality of 62kb from 500kb (simple laptop 1366x768).

Answer 1

500 kb is a lot, about 200 is normal. And if you show in a reduced form, then there should be thumbnails.

Answer 2

500 is a lot.
For the store, I save photos in Jpeg with a quality of 80%, size 500x500 px.
It's less than 200 kb.
Well, this photo comes out if a person zooms in on the preview.

Answer 3

Like mine - in the listing of catalogs thumbnails 200x200px - each approximately 10kb (stupidly resized original photo), on the product page - original photos 900x700px, each 120kb (squeezed without loss of quality). Google "jpeg lossless compression".

Answer 4

Make the smallest possible weight without visual loss of quality.

Answer 5

Worth
No more than 200kb
There are people who did not create your product and are more critical of it, as a result of which they will notice the difference between images with different quality
How to compress - jpegmini

Answer 6

Make the first photo bigger, it will show the product "face", the rest are smaller - a different color or angle. Whiten the background (weight will decrease) - "Gimp" will make you happy. Through a special program, optimize for the web.
The weight of the first photo is about 200-250 kb, and you shouldn’t have more, it usually works out that way for me, I take a picture with a professional camera, somewhere it turns out that way. The rest - no more than 150-180 will come out. All this is done, including in batch form, he did it himself and hundreds at a time.