Why is the repo size still big after using BFG but cloning size is much smaller

[Mads Skipper]

I have used BFG to remove a lot of big files from a repository and have reduced the "Receiving objects" when cloning to 206MB from 1.18GiB.

But when I look in Bitbucket (Self hosted) and use its Approximate size feature, the old repo is 1100MB and the new is 1000MB, so the 1/6 size reduction in cloning is not represented at all here.

Is there a way to determine what is taking up the space on the origin repository?

Also when I pushed this I renamed the old to nameBackup and created a clean repository with the old name where I pushed these changes