diff --git a/modules/search/instant-search/components/photon-image.jsx b/modules/search/instant-search/components/photon-image.jsx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9f63e5d6c428
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/search/instant-search/components/photon-image.jsx
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+/** @jsx h */
+
+/**
+ * External dependencies
+ */
+import { h } from 'preact';
+import photon from 'photon';
+
+const PhotonImage = ( { src, maxWidth = 300, maxHeight = 300, alt, ...otherProps } ) => {
+	const photonSrc = photon( src, { resize: `${ maxWidth },${ maxHeight }` } );
+
+	return <img src={ photonSrc } alt={ alt } { ...otherProps } />;
+};
+
+export default PhotonImage;
diff --git a/modules/search/instant-search/components/search-result-product.jsx b/modules/search/instant-search/components/search-result-product.jsx
index e4cc86d29ea2..ccddc0559888 100644
--- a/modules/search/instant-search/components/search-result-product.jsx
+++ b/modules/search/instant-search/components/search-result-product.jsx
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import { h, Component } from 'preact';
  * Internal dependencies
  */
 import SearchResultComments from './search-result-comments';
+import PhotonImage from './photon-image';
 
 class SearchResultProduct extends Component {
 	render() {
@@ -34,7 +35,7 @@ class SearchResultProduct extends Component {
 					/>
 				</h3>
 				{ firstImage && (
-					<img
+					<PhotonImage
 						className="jetpack-instant-search__search-result-product-img"
 						src={ `//${ firstImage }` }
 						alt=""
diff --git a/webpack.config.js b/webpack.config.js
index 3f43f178bd73..634ce184447d 100644
--- a/webpack.config.js
+++ b/webpack.config.js
@@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ const sharedWebpackConfig = {
 	devtool: isDevelopment ? 'source-map' : false,
 };
 
-// We export two configuration files: One for admin.js, and one for static.jsx. The latter produces pre-rendered HTML.
+// We export two main configuration files: One for admin.js, and one for static.jsx. The latter produces pre-rendered HTML.
+// The third configuration file is for Jetpack Search's Preact app.
 module.exports = [
 	{
 		...sharedWebpackConfig,
@@ -89,8 +90,8 @@ module.exports = [
 					hints: 'error',
 			  }
 			: {
-					maxAssetSize: 71680,
-					maxEntrypointSize: 71680,
+					maxAssetSize: 102400,
+					maxEntrypointSize: 102400,
 					hints: 'error',
 			  },
 	},