# What's with Avatar size only being 6kb?

**URL:** <https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whats-with-avatar-size-only-being-6kb/82997>\
**Category:** SON240sx Off Topic\
**Created:** [January 13, 2005, 10:07am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whats-with-avatar-size-only-being-6kb/82997 "2005-01-13T10:07:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Pavel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a4c791/32.png) [@Pavel](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Pavel)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 10:07am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whats-with-avatar-size-only-being-6kb/82997/1 "2005-01-13T10:07:27Z")

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I’m trying to make the little bubble car my avatar, and i can’t, since even on 0 quality and 125 pixel width it’s still 8 kb. Linking to another site doesn’t seem to work either. I don’t understand why the size has been reduced so drastically, since I uploaded a much bigger size pic and used it as my avatar only weeks ago.

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**Author:** ![Pavel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a4c791/32.png) [@Pavel](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Pavel)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 10:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whats-with-avatar-size-only-being-6kb/82997/2 "2005-01-13T10:23:53Z")

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To further note: Bing being a vice president, has an avatar that’s 169x154 pixels, that’s larger than 125x125… can we make this fair please? :twisted:

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**Author:** ![iQuAGoD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@iQuAGoD](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/iQuAGoD)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 1:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whats-with-avatar-size-only-being-6kb/82997/3 "2005-01-13T13:35:58Z")

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6kb is for uploading your own avatar to the SON server. Yours can be a  
larger file size, just keep the dimensions to 125x125. Just make sure to  
include http:// in your link to another website.

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**Author:** ![SHIFT\_KA24DET](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9bd4f/32.png) [@SHIFT\_KA24DET](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SHIFT_KA24DET)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 7:13pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whats-with-avatar-size-only-being-6kb/82997/4 "2005-01-13T19:13:35Z")

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The Best thing to do is upload it and host it off another site.

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**Author:** ![bing](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bing/32/7211_2.png) [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 12:21am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whats-with-avatar-size-only-being-6kb/82997/5 "2005-01-14T00:21:58Z")

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you can shrink mine and put it back up there…

i dont know anything about space requirements or whatever.

i am computer illiterate

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**Author:** ![iQuAGoD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@iQuAGoD](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/iQuAGoD)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 8:26am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whats-with-avatar-size-only-being-6kb/82997/6 "2005-01-14T08:26:28Z")

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Right click and go to properties it will give you 123x123 or whatever size  
it is. n00b.

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**Author:** ![Pavel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a4c791/32.png) [@Pavel](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Pavel)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 1:51pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whats-with-avatar-size-only-being-6kb/82997/7 "2005-01-14T13:51:44Z")

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lol, Bing, i dont’ mind yours being big, but it just makes my case so much better when I use one of the officials violating their own rules 🙂