So I play skyrim using mods of course and usually install more mods as i go along my world. On my new character, i have already reached level 30 and now realize that the game takes longer than usual to save the game and loading screen times.

The game now takes 30 seconds to load and around 25 - 30 seconds to save the game (this is not the end of the world, but i wish to fix it). I checked the save file size and it says the file size is 85,000 KB (rounded). That is a lot imo and my save files never used to be this high.

I used to use a mod called 'Populated skyrim Civil War' and it made the game have big battles against the two factions. Now at first when i got this mod i did not care about file size, cause this in the very beginning of the play through. The mod resulted in leaving a [censored] ton of dead bodies around Skyrim, but i already disabled this mod way before my save file size has reached 85 MB. Other than that, i dont know what would be causing it to be so big.

I went back to the game and started to try to clean up some things. I stopped tracking all of my quests, i unfavorited a lot of things i was not using (I am a mage as this character and had many spells favorited), I had around 2000 arrows on my character, so i dropped them and disabled them through the console. Other than those small things, i dont really know what to do to reduce the save file size. I have tried using programs such as, "SKYRIM save cleaner"

but nothing much changed.

Is there anyway I can reduce the save file significantly? Anyway to remove all of the things left on the ground? (Bodies, weapons, etc.)

Thanks.