What size should a blog header be?

1600 px wide at around 150–200 KB is a good balance for full-width headers on most themes.

Does this strip location data?

Re-encoding drops the original EXIF block, so GPS coordinates from your camera are not carried into the downloaded file.

Resize an image to 200 KB

200 KB leaves room for a detailed scan or a full-colour photo while still passing most upload checks. Drop your photo in below — the target is already set to 200 KB, and everything runs inside this browser tab, so the image never leaves your device.

Target file size

Dimensions

Output format

How to get a photo under 200 KB without it turning to mush

Crop before you compress

Empty background costs bytes. Cropping tight on the subject leaves more of the size budget for the detail that matters.

Match the required dimensions

Most forms cap both KB and pixels. Set the dimension preset here as well so a 200 KB file is not rejected for being the wrong shape.

Use JPG for photos

PNG stores photos far less efficiently. Choosing JPG output often reaches the target with visibly better quality.

Who asks for 200 KB?

200 KB is the everyday limit for portfolio images, blog uploads and content management systems that want fast-loading pages.

Settings that actually reach 200 KB

For the web, resize to the width the page actually renders — usually 1200–1600 px — before targeting 200 KB. Serving a 4000 px image scaled down in CSS wastes both bytes and battery on the visitor's device.

The mistake that gets uploads rejected

Compressing a logo or illustration as JPG. Flat-colour artwork develops ringing around edges; keep those as PNG and reduce the palette instead.

Questions about 200 KB uploads

What size should a blog header be?: 1600 px wide at around 150–200 KB is a good balance for full-width headers on most themes.
Does this strip location data?: Re-encoding drops the original EXIF block, so GPS coordinates from your camera are not carried into the downloaded file.