>>The image in comment #1 is 1,073,782 bytes at both its original, full size and at my scaled-down size. Anyone know how to reduce both the dimensional and byte size of a linked image?<<
The fastest way I know is to use the reduce options in Photobucket. I don’t know if there is an HTML way, but I will be interested if anyone comes up with one..
That would work but it is work and would likely violate copyrights.
There is no obvious HTML way to reduce the byte count. This would require some server-side processing to generate a thumbnail and send it to the browser. HTML can only control width=... and height=... of the image that has been already downloaded.