RE: FN-FORUM: Bandwidth issues

date posted 31st January 2007 11:18

Michelle Penny wrote:
> I have a client who manages her website she has gone over the
> webspace limit a few times and we've been able to sort this out,
> however recently she went over her bandwidth limit and to lower it I
> recommended she reduce the size of some images (they were all fairly
> large) and also some content. The website is however still over and I
> was wondering if anyone had any other tips for reducing it ?
>

There are tools that compress web pages by removing all redundant text (such
as multiple spaces). However, that makes the pages virtually unreadable
when it comes to changing them so you need to have two versions of each
page: one for changing and one for use on the web site.

If the server host supports it, there's a standard way to compress web pages
before sending them. Also, if someone requests a page or object that hasn't
changed since the last request the server can send a 'not changed' response.

You probably can't change the server's behaviour directly, but the hosting
company might switch these features on if you ask them.

It's pretty easy to use a tool like Fiddler to find out what the server's
doing. Let me know the URL and I can check it out for you.

Andy