facebook et al wasting 75mbit/sec

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Popular websites, such as Facebook, are wasting as much as 75MBit/sec of bandwidth due to excessively long URLs. According to a recent article over at O3 Magazine, they took a typical Facebook home page, looked at the traffic statistics from compete.com, and figured out the bandwidth savings if Facebook switched from using URL paths which, in some cases, run over 150 characters in length, to shorter ones. It looks at the impact on service providers, with the wasted bandwidth used by the subsequent GET requests for these excessively long URLs. Facebook is just one example; many other sites have similar problems, as well as CMS products such as Word Press. It's an interesting approach to web optimization for high traffic sites

linkage: http://www.o3magazine.com/4/a/0/1.html

this is actually something i never considered before. amazon and the like are just as bad.

http: //forum.watmm.com/index.php?s=59b7f6ea 54251748be326e027d188487&showtopic=44075

joyrex, think of the bandwidth you'd save if you turned everything into a tinyurl before the GET, lol :teeth:

alternatively, you could just ban another few people

sorry i posted in your boring thread that nobody cares about

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yeah, it's pretty boring alright

watmm is blocked at work so that has had the annoying habit of making me addicted to fucking slashdot