Sample JPG 1MB File
JPEG photo — SMPTE test card with EXIF metadata
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Download 1MB JPG1 MBTestFile-jpg-1mb.jpg
File details
| Format | JPG |
| Extension | .jpg |
| MIME type | image/jpeg |
| Size | 1 MB |
| Exact bytes | 1,048,576 |
| Filename | TestFile-jpg-1mb.jpg |
| Format version | JPEG / JFIF 1.02 |
| Contents | 2,400 × 1,800 px RGB synthetic gradient with text overlay; no EXIF metadata; baseline JPEG |
| Encoding | RGB 8-bit; baseline JPEG, quality 85; Huffman-coded DCT |
What is a 1MB JPG file useful for?
A 1 MB JPEG is the standard reference for product photography and editorial imagery. Use it to test full image processing pipelines: EXIF stripping before public storage, responsive image srcset generation across multiple resized breakpoints, lazy-load intersection observer triggers, and CDN cache warm-up. At 2,400 × 1,800 px it is large enough to produce four srcset breakpoints (400, 800, 1,200, 2,400) without upscaling any variant.
What's inside this file?
Generated with Pillow in RGB mode. A 2,400 × 1,800 pixel synthetic image with a diagonal colour gradient and centred text overlay. Encoded as baseline JPEG at quality 85. No EXIF metadata. The uncompressed RGB raster is approximately 12.96 MB; JPEG compression at quality 85 achieves roughly a 13:1 ratio on this synthetic content.
Download via curl
curl -L "http://localhost:8000/files/jpg/TestFile-jpg-1mb.jpg" \ -o TestFile-jpg-1mb.jpg
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