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Please, Keep your Blog Light

posted by janrinok on Friday January 26 2018, @04:02AM   
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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• Re:vote with your browser Re:vote with your browser (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @07:11PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @07:11PM (#628428)

  cant believe this is informative

  its like i was born in the wrong era. everyone should already know this right? please?

  to use less bandwidth you can actually change settings and stuff? oh wait if you use chrome i guess they sort of dumb it down while adding freedom or something which is why all the geeks that dont

  ahh

  i am going back to my bridge and will post again from my apple newton. at least it wont even render these stupid graphics. never found a working version of lynx for it tho

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• Re:vote with your browser (Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday January 27 2018, @07:54PM

  by Bot (3902) on Saturday January 27 2018, @07:54PM (#629083) Journal

  > i am going back to my bridge

  This is a very outspoken troll...

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  Account abandoned.

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