Comments on: Facebook Ups Photo Size by Almost 20%

By: Facebook Upgrades Photos with Larger Sizes and Faster Load Times

Facebook Upgrades Photos with Larger Sizes and Faster Load Times — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 23:51:08 +0000

[...] the resolution of displayed photos yet again from 720px to 960px, a 33% increase (last year they increased by 20% from 604px to 720px). Furthermore, the company claims that photos now load twice as fast as before. Another minor [...]

By: Facebook Increases Maximum Photo Size to 2048px, Adds Lightbox

Facebook Increases Maximum Photo Size to 2048px, Adds Lightbox — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 23:06:08 +0000

[...] earlier this year Facebook upped their maximum photo size to 720px, an increase of 20%. Today, they’ve announced that the maximum size is increasing to [...]

By: HD-DSLR

HD-DSLR — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:28:02 +0000

Finally..

By: Mario Guarneros

Mario Guarneros — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:30:13 +0000

Oh I see, well I don't know the actual figures of the sites involved so I'll happily take your word for it ; )

Well spotted guys.

By: Michael Zhang

Michael Zhang — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:21:56 +0000

We meant in terms of users and how many photos are uploaded to it.

By: Mario Guarneros

Mario Guarneros — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:50:05 +0000

I believe this statement is not accurate (but then again it might be impossible to know for sure):

"Because Facebook is the most popular photo sharing service on the web".

You rarely find people in blogs and websites linking to Facebook Galleries, instead people use FLICKR the most for this kind of photo sharing.

I know facebook serves more pageviews than any other website of its kind (or maybe all kinds) but as stated on this video: http://bit.ly/adlUMd Flickr still is ahead of facebook on photo sharing, u can fast forward to minute 1:50 to see this info.

Also in this animation you can see how big facebook really is but as we all know FB is not only serving that amount of pageviews strictly on photo sharing so I think they still have a lot to do, for instance make it easier (and customize) to link to a particular photo and not just full galleries.

Then again that's just how I see it, maybe I am missing some key info.

By: Mr. Johaneman

Mr. Johaneman — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 05:48:36 +0000

The increase is still 1.42 in terms of pixels. Also, since at 604×604 it was already compressed, the relative size increase of the 720×720 images will also still be around 1.42 times.

By: nathanyan

nathanyan — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:24:35 +0000

I don't know if they'll actually be doing this – so far I haven't seen any older images being resized.

By: kingkool68

kingkool68 — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:30:06 +0000

Let's not be dufuses here guys. Facebook already stores photos larger than the maximum size that they display. They do that because you never know down the line how things might change. Now they can just run the originals through their resizing script and no one is none the wiser.

By: Michael Zhang

Michael Zhang — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:20:47 +0000

Thanks for the input =)

So many with the squared increase and compression offset the end result is around 20% ;-)