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Introduction to Bandwidth
When choosing a host, the amount of bandwidth you choose to purchase can
be crucial to the success of your site. Generally speaking, the more amount
of bandwidth you have, the more traffic your site will be able to handle
at one time.
How much bandwidth do I need?
To determine how much bandwidth you will need, you must
estimate how big each page on your site is and how many people are going
to view it. To do this, add up the size of every image on the page and
the size of the page's HTML files, and multiply that by the amount of
views for that page you expect per month. For example, if you had three
10k images on your page and a 2k HTML file, you would have 32k of data
on that page. Multiply that by your expected page views (let's say in
this case it is 100,000 per month), and you get 3.2 G of data to be transferred
that month for that page. Now calculate this for each page, and you will
know approximately how much bandwidth your entire site requires.
How
can I save bandwidth?
There are a number of ways to optimize your bandwidth
usage. First and foremost, keep your pages small as possible. This means
tight HTML programming to reduce file size, and compacting your pictures
and graphics to reduce image size (NetMechanic has a free, easy-to- use
file compression utility). Use the JPEG image format for your photos and
the GIF format for graphics, as their compression abilities are second
to none.
Take a look at Dr. HTML's site for some useful tools that
will analyze your site's image sizes, transfer amounts, table structure
and more.
Another way to save bandwidth is to use photos and images
on your site that are actually stored elsewhere. You can do this by replacing
the file name in your IMG SRC tag with a URL. Before doing this, however,
make sure you have the permission of the site you are linking to. Otherwise,
you are "stealing bandwidth", which is considered pirating and
is therefore illegal (for more information, see "preventing bandwidth
theft" below).
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is also an effective way
to save bandwidth. It is designed to reduce HTML file size by attributing
values for any HTML element/command at the beginning of the document.
For more information on CSS and other resources related
to bandwidth, visit Infohiway's site on bandwidth conservation.
Preventing
bandwidth theft
Using another site's images by linking to them in your
IMG SRC tag without permission means is a form of double piracy; that
is, you are pirating both the site's image and bandwidth. As unethical
as it may be, it is a reality many webmasters have to deal with on a daily
basis.
The most basic method of preventing bandwidth theft is
policing. This entails analyzing search engines, logs and other sites
to find out who is using your images (and therefore your bandwidth) without
permission. Once you have located the offending party/parties, you can
contact them and order them to stop linking to your site (if they try
to feed you a story about everything on the Internet being in the "public
domain", don't buy it). Unfortunately, policing sites yourself is
a time-consuming task.
Another more costly but time-efficient way to protect
your bandwidth and images is through commercial software. Artistscope
offers a number of utilities that can protect your images through encryption
and other methods.
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