Now that web pages weigh in at tens of megabytes and make scores of external calls, those with bandwidth caps are in for a raw deal unless the trend turns. A pseudo-anonymous blogger makes the appeal to please keep your blog light, as in kilobytes per page rather than megabytes.
The light went on for him when moving to a mobile service plan with a 25MB per month limit. It turns out that 25MB is barely enough to load seven blog posts from the site Medium. There the pages can be 3.26MB each and 25 divded by 3.26 is only about 7.6. Pages of that size would have taken close to 10 minutes to load over an old dialup connection. Most other sites are just as bad or worse. He walks through some easy steps to guarantee a lean web site with low bandwidth requirements and fast load times.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @04:16AM (2 children)
It weighs in at zero bits.
(Score: 3, Funny) by chromas on Friday January 26 2018, @04:50AM
Hey, me too! I use PigZip [hackles.org] to keep it light.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday January 26 2018, @06:26PM
Yeah, posting you thoughts onto some kind of website is totally stupid!