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Lower res thumbnails of course where if I decide I actually like the UI I click it to view the high res. It's wasteful and slow to have ALL images on the same page be the highest resolution

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if you click something that says 'photo gallery' or 'screenshot showcase' you probably should expect there are big images inside. IMO low res thumbnails are the most disgraceful way to showcase pictures.

OP website is just really slow though. the screenshots are just 150kb each.

Yes, but the images are much larger than the size they are shown on the site. They are being downloaded full size and resized by the browser to fit.

The 'thumbnail' would be the size the site is showing them at right now. Clicking it would bring you to the full size.

There's ~1Mb PNG in there as well, depends heavily on the content.

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