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Been wrestling with my first iWeb site for a while now. Searched tons of boards and posts, looking for help on the site size but have not found any solutions. My site has several small photo albums that are eating up most of the site size. I realize part of this is because iWeb generates different thumbnails, etc. for photo album images. I have reduced the size of the images, removed photo frames, etc. but cannot seem to find anything else to help reduce the size of these pages and site.
Thanks in advance for any tips.

GAdkb wrote:
I have reduced the size of the images...
But have you reduced the file size of the images? For a comparison of JPG & PNG file sizes, click here:
For very large, high-quality RAW and JPG images, you can choose iWeb > Preferences and select “Optimize images on import.” This setting reduces the size of imported images by up to 60 percent so they don’t take up as much space in your Domain file.
As an alternative to letting iWeb determine your image file sizes, before importing a JPG image to iWeb you can change its size by double-clicking the image which will open it in Preview. Then choose File > Save As... and adjust the Quality slider.
Or click below to see the Downsize utility. It's integrated with iPhoto, so you can process an entire iPhoto album in one click:
Or there's HTML-Optimizer Pro and Web Site Maestro here:

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