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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: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Friday January 26 2018, @05:27PM (2 children)

    by GreatAuntAnesthesia (3275) on Friday January 26 2018, @05:27PM (#628348) Journal

    These are the two games I keep coming back to, year after year after year:

    http://www.oolite.org/ [oolite.org]
    https://www.wesnoth.org/ [wesnoth.org]

    No snooping, no massive bandwidth/ data requirements, plenty of customisation options and user-generated content. Oh, and free.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @09:39PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @09:39PM (#628545)

    Oolite is awesome, one of my all time favorites. I kinda burned myself out on wesnoth though. ADOM, MAngband, and dwarf fortress on the roguelike end, have all devoured many days of my life.

  • (Score: 2) by acid andy on Sunday January 28 2018, @11:10PM

    by acid andy (1683) on Sunday January 28 2018, @11:10PM (#629626) Homepage Journal

    Thanks for the recommendation. I just whiled away the last couple of hours in Oolite on Linux. It's come a long way since I tried it out years ago! Great to see they're still improving it and I suppose Mr Braben must be a bit more tolerant (or ambivalent) towards people writing such things these days.

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