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> even 1 MB is considered pretty large for a web image.

Compressed. Remember that in order to display it, the browser has to unpack it to what amounts to a bitmap. And newer, better compression formats (e.g. PNG) make that even worse in compressing the same bitmap file to a much smaller transmission size.

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