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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."
No, they cannot use TinyURL (read: goatse, tubgirl et. al) thank you very much.
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.
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?"