Question: I am trying to reduce the width of the bar. I achieved the same by using pointWidth attribute. However, the padding before and after the label "1 page" is too high. I want to compress the whole graph similar to the second image.

Does anyone know?

Before:

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4eWF9.png)

After:

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/WCMJ5.png)

Answer: 
try setting the height of the chart : 

chart: {
 type: 'bar',
 height: 250, // this can be calculated on the basis of categories length along with some default margin at the bottom and top of the chart
 }
You can set use pointPadding / groupPadding <http://api.highcharts.com/highcharts#plotOptions.bar.groupPadding>
<http://api.highcharts.com/highcharts#plotOptions.bar.pointPadding>