Are Web Pages Getting Larger?

An anonymous reader asks: "I work for a large multinational in a remote part of world. Our connectivity to the outside world (the Internet as well as company communications) is all done via a single E1 line - that's 2Mbps. Thousands of users. The company keeps access pretty well screwed down for security reasons, and the fact that our link to the outside world costs almost $300K/year! Our growing problem is Internet traffic. While policing of non-business use is very active, Internet traffic continues to grow. I'm becoming convinced that one of our problems is that average web page size is growing. As more of the world enjoys broadband access, I think web developers have less reason to limit the size of their web pages. Large images, flash animations and other size-increasing content seem increasingly common. Am I right? Can anyone point to a recent study that would support my theory, and help me convince my management that we just plain need more bandwidth?"

Comments

Dont ask for more bandwidth

[mnmn]

Youre an employee there. Youre part of the company. You should be working to SAVE them money.

So just asking for $$$ for bandwidth is failing them, in a way. If things arent working out AT ALL right now and you have to fix it, they might pay. But if youre making do with things, they wont slap down another $100K.

So try other ideas like giving them quotas. They'll learn to fit their browsing in the quotas. Cache the pages, try to disable some things like maybe .exe files, flash, jar files etc. I wouldnt say you NEED more bandwidth, I say you COULD USE more bandwidth. I could always use more bandwidth. Actually a T3 right here now wouldnt be so bad.. I wouldnt have to WAIT for the damn DVD ISOs to download.