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Are Long URLs Wasting Bandwidth?
Ryan McAdams writes "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."
Are forums (fora?) like these wasting bandwidth as well by allowing nerds, like myself, to banter about minutia (not implying this topic)? Discuss amongst yourselves.
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Absolute power corrupts absolutely. indymedia
No, they cannot use TinyURL (read: goatse, tubgirl et. al) thank you very much.
They should just move all the GET parameters to POST. Problem solved. ;)
Developers: We can use your help.
In order to maximize the web experience for all customers, effective immediately all websites with URLs in excess of 16 characters will be bandwidth throttled.
Sincerely,
Comcast
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
Just use a smaller font for the URL!
This thread is wasting more bandwidth
That's nothing. This is the most disgusting shit you'll ever see on the Internet.
I don't believe in time. It's a grand conspiracy designed to sell watches.
I won't lie. I was partly relieved, but partly dissapointed when I clicked that link.
Belief? Hope? Preference?The Existential Vortex
http://tinyurl.com/6rywju
Tiny url is not all bad, this is one example of a positive use.
An SQL query goes to a bar, walks up to a table and asks, "Mind if I join you?"
To fthr sav our bdwdth, ^A txt shld be cmprsd into acrnyms!
I was disappointed, too. I was expecting a link to idle.slashdot.org.
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