User blog comment:Semanticdrifter/Worth One Thousand: Image Use Best Practices/@comment-4519283-20130919003809

Actually, in technical terms, it is false. A picture is worth much more than a thousand words. In fact, the one here is worth more than three million words: An average word is 5 characters, 6 including spaces. Each character is roughly 1 byte (barring any styling information), meaning that 1,000 words would be, on average 6,000 bytes (this includes spaces), meaning 6 KB. Each pixel of a picture is 96 Bytes, 32 for red (0-255), 32 for green (0-255), 32 for blue (0-255). The picture frame above has 193,264 pixels, making 18,553,344 bytes. So, if you divide 18,553,334 by 6, you get 3,092,224 words.