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Please, Keep your Blog Light

posted by janrinok on Friday January 26 2018, @04:02AM   Printer-friendly
from the we-blaze-a-trail-that-others-might-follow dept.

canopic jug writes:

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: 3, Funny) by FatPhil on Friday January 26 2018, @11:32AM (3 children)

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Friday January 26 2018, @11:32AM (#628218) Homepage
    Yeah, it's funny how RSS has evolved into what the web used to be. Some even think that RSS has become too bloated in functionality.

    Reminder to self: migrate my webpages to gopher...
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @12:49PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @12:49PM (#628239)

    Just wait for RSS 2.0 - now with RSSScript!

    /joke... I hope?

    • (Score: 2) by chromas on Friday January 26 2018, @04:00PM

      by chromas (34) Subscriber Badge on Friday January 26 2018, @04:00PM (#628301) Journal

      Joke's on you; RSS 2.0's been a thing for many moons now. It's a pile of XML that lets you embed HTML and whatever else you want in it. I haven't seen scripts yet but some sites embed stock photos and tracking images.

    • (Score: 1) by DECbot on Friday January 26 2018, @04:02PM

      by DECbot (832) on Friday January 26 2018, @04:02PM (#628302) Journal

      I think it could be done. RSS + CSS + JavaScript... what could go wrong? Flash support? ActiveX? No problem! Wait! Lots of problems, just how you like it! Let me tell you the wonders of Java applets and how! There's a whole internet waiting to be downloaded and with RSScript you can see it as how the advertisers had wanted.

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