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from the we-blaze-a-trail-that-others-might-follow dept.
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: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @05:17AM (3 children)
Most summaries here are just a few paragraphs copy pasted verbatim from the source article. Canopic jug took the time to write this summary.
Not trying to shame others (thanks all for submitting stories), but just wanted to compliment canopic jug for taking the extra effort.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @06:06AM (1 child)
Seconded. <3
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday January 26 2018, @11:57PM
Among the reasons that I don't submit many stories is that I just don't have the headspace to write up a proper post rather than jacking a few paragraphs from the original article.
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(Score: 1) by Roo_Boy on Friday January 26 2018, @03:32PM
Living up to his namesake I suppose, all the best bits pulled out and stored for later :D
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