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Media files

Media files are everything in the Media Library: the images, documents, audio and video that were uploaded to your site. Each upload is one item, even though WordPress keeps several files for most images, in the sizes the theme needs.

Why it matters

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The number of media items doesn’t slow down a page: a page loads only the images it shows. It matters for everything that handles all of them at once. Backups and moves to a new server take longer, the Media Library gets harder to search, and plugins that process images, for example to compress them, have more to do.

Together with the Media Library size, the count shows how the library grows: many small files, or a few large ones.

What influences it

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WordPress: Uploads, mostly, from the editor, the Media Library or plugins. Imports bring their media along. Some plugins store their own files as media items, such as generated PDFs or form attachments. Deleted items in the trash don’t count.

In Permo

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The Media files card is in System info, tab Content. It counts every item in the Media Library that isn’t in the trash, of every file type, with a line of the last 3 months below it, one count per day, and the change in that time. If Permo has counted for less than 3 months, the change starts at the first count.

Permo counts the items, not the files on disk: an image with five sizes counts once. Permo counts once a day and when you select Count content again. The value gives context; Permo doesn’t rate it.

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