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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, those guys wanting to ban black cars are saner people than writers of this article ...
The black car thing atleast is somewhat significant! For example, see when mythbusters tested white vs. black car.
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Unless your blog endures tens of millions of page hits every day, TFA authors weren't even talking to you. Can you say n-o-n s-e-q-u-i-t-u-r?
Just how interesting are the compounds in coffee, anyway?
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
How exactly is my objective comment supposed to hurt your feelings?
You weren't really considering mine, though, were you? You deliberately ran off to my personal blog to see what dirt you could dig up and, finding what you perceived as humiliating dirt, you then deliberately posted it here in an attempt to humiliate me. You didn't hurt my feelings much if any, but if I were a different person you might have.
I didn't even look at your "homepage" at all; all I did was check the URL to confirm that it's not some Facebook-scale site. I didn't attempt to shame you, I merely pointed out the obvious fact that your site isn't relevant to the contents of TFA, and thus that your dismissive remark was also not relevant.
Perhaps it is you who should be less reactive and recognize that people have feelings?
Why did I read that as "panic and cheese!!!"?
"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him." - Tolkien