Conserving Bandwidth

Bandwidth is used up every time someone visits your website. Unlike disk space, bandwidth is often renewed every month. A lot of times bandwidth can get used up pretty quickly. In this post we will talk a little bit about how to conserve your monthly bandwidth allotment.

Every time someone visits your website certain elements they view will take away a certain amount of bandwidth. Images and audio files typically take up the most bandwidth. The more images and audio files on your website, and the more traffic you receive to your website, will determine how much bandwidth is used up on a monthly basis. Different image file types take up more or less bandwidth also.

Tips to conserving bandwidth:

• Only use .gif and .jpg images on your website.

• If you host a Wordpress blog, limit the number of posts on your home page, especially if your posts contain an image.

• Hot linking is another problem that causes bandwidth to run out. This is when someone links directly to an image on your website. A good way to prevent hot linking it to disable right click on your website. {link to script}

• If you host an html code for people to copy and paste on their website in order to link to your website, host the button at photobucket and make sure the link to the image is the link to the image hosted at photobucket.

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