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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: 2) by TheRaven on Friday January 26 2018, @12:39PM

    by TheRaven (270) on Friday January 26 2018, @12:39PM (#628229) Journal
    I like Jekyll and I don't think I'd even want to do what the grandparent is suggesting (if you're typing them on a mobile phone keypad, your blog entries will probably suck), but Jekyll doesn't make that very easy. If you don't care about previewing, you can run a local git client on your client and use a post-receive hook on the server to generate, but if you want to be able to do local previews then you need a load or Ruby goo to run Jekyll, which is probably difficult to set up on most toy computers.
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