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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @06:52PM (1 child)
i think the answer is then that 25MB is actually the average on my smartphone when I am not on my wifi at home
i read typical news on it. i am not reading someones blog... but I may come here or similar forums like those 'small machine forums' set up and frequented by people that care about a few specific topics. usually the biggest bandwidth is the avatar and links to something else...
first it was the cloud -- keeping things local to the home network became very hard to do with new products.. then came windows 10, which broke new ground in how to waste bandwidth going out and cominb back into the home...and driving up costs for everyone that has to pay for a connection because cloud
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday January 26 2018, @11:54PM
Tapping the Cancel button twice has become muscle memory for me.
I filed a bug with the title that "App Store Doesn't Believe 'No' Means No" but so far I've gotten no response from Apple.
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