I have been using my site with 7 GB of monthly bandwidth. Presently all of my quoted bandwidth is almost covered. I wonder how this much of bandwidth is occupied? I think there should be a way by which I can reduce my monthly usage bandwidth with the same number of visits. I should mention that per page bandwidth consumption is much higher to me. Is there anything like reducing page space (is this possible ?) or some thing by which I can manage my site with this limited bandwidth ? Thanks in advance
Well, go to stats.. have a look at which pages gets most hits.. over 60%-70% of hits.. If there are images called from them pages, try to optimise sizes of the images.. like header / banner / sliced page tops etc.. If there are photos then , try to move the photos to other domains with other hosts, (make sure you allow access from this domain..) Or you can even host photos on free image hosters..
You can reduce your bandwidth usage by blocking unwanted robots by robots.txt...those robots also occupy bandwidth every time come to your website...
Yes you are right.. I have seen lot of bandwidth was captured by this robots. But wont they affect my site? How traffic would generate if people don't find me ?
They won't affect your website directly..but these could increase your charges of bandwidth to your hosting provider.. If real people are not coming to your website...first set your targets what kind of traffic you want to your website and set your keywords accordingly.....start working to increase your website visibility over search engines(SEO), this is the best way to attract targeted traffic to your website.. you can also put comments on related blogs and forums to attract targeted traffic..also you can use article, press release and classified submissions..
bandwith counts also when You upload files and stuff to Your webserver. For example You do a lot of file editing and after each upload/download Your traffic sums up. Don't forget to optimize picture quality and in images where color is not the main thing, use GIF format withch is a lot smaller
Humm.. I didn't take consideration about those. Last month I had a huge uploading to my site and also modified lot of my pages..
This could help you a lot.. http://docs.townnews.com/index.php/Stats_Optimizing_Files_for_Better_Bandwidth_Performance
To decrease bandwith when editing a lot of files, you can use the build in editor, if it is really an issue for you. Some hosting cpanels have the editing tool to edit files without downloading and uploading them. It is nice to use it if you have a large file and you need to just change a line, otherwise its not that handy
There's lots of jabbering going on here that doesn't really address the issue? You may reduce your traffic from 30-60% by denying (not suggesting; via robots.txt) harvesters and bots which are not going to be beneficial to your website (s). Based on either IP range, User Agent or a combination of both. robots.txt is honored by compliant bots. There are many, many that will simply avoid your request, while others will use robots.txt to go where they should not. All this requires monitoring and direct recation on your part to prevent the violators possible return. do a search on "htaccess". The result will provide you with a basic beginning. There are even some major SE's that hog bandwidth in comparison to what little traffic they return. In addition, most every major SE today is utilizing a variety of tools for their patrons and this variety, rather than utilizing a single crawl, crates supplemental crawls.
You must crawl before you walk. Start with some very simple procedures and/or implementations and grow from those. htaccess is quite versatile and may be used in KISS (keep it simple and stupid) format or in complicated regex.