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What recomendable size should i choose when uploading an image to a worpress site, so that when i open the image on a mobile application it does not have to consume too much bandwidth but still maintain some quality.

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There really isn't a good answer to this because the size of the image depends on many different things:

1) Color depth
2) DPI
3) Desired quality
4) Will the image be zoomed?

etc.

As a rule of thumb, you want the file size as small as possible while still providing good quality.  Shoot for a few hundred KB for color photos.
And once you save the image to it's smallest file size, check out the plugin called Smush.it.
It will compress the image even more (if it's possible) and retain the quality.
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dcowley's suggestion is sound, but make sure that you don't take a high rez image and shrink it down to a thumbnail. The file info is still there lurking in the thumbnail. You have to make scaled down thumbnails.

A lot of folks end up stuffing 300px< x 300px< pngs into a postage stamp. It's still a problem..
Why can't we all just go back to using Lynx?  No fuss, no images.

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