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posted by janrinok on Friday January 26 2018, @04:02AM   Printer-friendly
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.


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  • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @07:00AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @07:00AM (#628134)

    Even soylentnews takes about 130kB (80KB plus some images). So 20 to 30 SN loads/pages and that's more than 25MB.

    25MB/month is for stuff like instant text messaging, not regular blog viewing.

    What he's doing is even dumber than telling bloggers to post photos of cheaper food and drinks so that he can afford to try the same stuff on a $25/month budget.

    There are probably bloggers who have very light blogs. You don't know about them? Go figure.

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by pTamok on Friday January 26 2018, @08:43AM

    by pTamok (3042) on Friday January 26 2018, @08:43AM (#628152)

    Even soylentnews takes about 130kB (80KB plus some images). So 20 to 30 SN loads/pages and that's more than 25MB.

    In my Universe, 130kB x 30 = 3900 kB = 3.9 MB, and 3.9 25.

    Using your numbers, 25 MB would give 192 page loads, or an average of a little over 6 page loads a day.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by FatPhil on Friday January 26 2018, @11:42AM

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Friday January 26 2018, @11:42AM (#628219) Homepage
    > Even soylentnews takes about 130kB (80KB plus some images)

    This page, before posting this post, is, according to Pale Moon's "Page Info", 15.28 KB (15,651 bytes)
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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday January 27 2018, @12:10AM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Saturday January 27 2018, @12:10AM (#628645) Homepage Journal

    There are very few images on my site. IIRC there is just one Javascript that has the same URL from all the pages that use it.

    My very largest document is 50 pages in hardcopy form. Let's see how big it is:

    $ du -s /var/warplife/www/mdc/books/schizoaffective-disorder/
    392 /var/warplife/www/mdc/books/schizoaffective-disorder/

    That's 392,000 bytes for a fifty page document that is on a reading list that the California State Mental Health Department distributes to its county clinics.

    I used to have two Google AdSense units on just one page but I removed them when their earnings had gone way down.

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