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This. There are too many parties involved in this with different resolution/ratio restrictions that also incorporate resizing. Technically speaking you can make your own website whatever you want. There are many options to handle the image compression for page load speed issues but still display a high-quality image. It's the 3rd party hosting, sending and receiving that becomes the problem. They cram large images into 640x480 boxes on 3rd parties still.


Here's an interesting example:

https://static.cargurus.com/images/forsale/2018/05/11/04/55/2015_volkswagen_golf_r-pic-1546375701381261781-1024x768.jpeg

The file name is 1024x768, but it's in a 640x480 box. It's all 4:3, but even when a user raised their hand to say, hey I'd like to see a larger image, it's 640x480.


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