I was a contributor to http://alt-f4.blog/ http://alt-f4.blog/ and helped get the site down to 1.2-1.9 MB, depending on thumbnail size. 500KB of that is the ba

I was a contributor to http://alt-f4.blog/ http://alt-f4.blog/ and helped get the site down to 1.2-1.9 MB, depending on thumbnail size. 500KB of that is the background image alone, and each of the 10 thumbnails are ~50KB. Images take a lot more room than text.