Save yourself some bandwidth

urb · 2003-10-06, 01:18 PM

Apart from compressing images on your sites, here is another simple way to cut back on bandwidth.

Spaces and indentation add unnecessary weight to a page and if you remove the pretty indents and wide open spaces from your html code you can save yourself a couple of kilobytes. A good example of this is to get the source code for bbc.co.uk and save it to your local drive. When I did it I got a 37k file. I then edited out some of the white space and indents from the code and saved the page again which gave me a 36k file.

If you are not too worried about ease of editing then you could go a stage further and place a lot of the page on one or two lines. Check out the source code for www.google.com/ and see how they've done it.

You might think that 1 Kilobyte is nothing to worry about, but if you look at it over time.....

1 Kilobyte = 0.0009765625 Megabyte

0.0009765625 Megabyte times by 3000 visitors = 2.9296875 Megabytes

2.9296875 Megabytes times 30 days = 87.890625 Megabytes.

Food for thought.

2003-10-06, 01:18 PM	#1
urb All the way from Room 101 Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 3,557	Save yourself some bandwidth Apart from compressing images on your sites, here is another simple way to cut back on bandwidth. Spaces and indentation add unnecessary weight to a page and if you remove the pretty indents and wide open spaces from your html code you can save yourself a couple of kilobytes. A good example of this is to get the source code for bbc.co.uk and save it to your local drive. When I did it I got a 37k file. I then edited out some of the white space and indents from the code and saved the page again which gave me a 36k file. If you are not too worried about ease of editing then you could go a stage further and place a lot of the page on one or two lines. Check out the source code for www.google.com/ and see how they've done it. You might think that 1 Kilobyte is nothing to worry about, but if you look at it over time..... 1 Kilobyte = 0.0009765625 Megabyte 0.0009765625 Megabyte times by 3000 visitors = 2.9296875 Megabytes 2.9296875 Megabytes times 30 days = 87.890625 Megabytes. Food for thought.