Ways to Reduce Your Website Bandwidth
Your website bandwidth is the amount of data that can be transferred from your website's server to the user. It is important to understand and know what your bandwidth is because you are likely paying for a ホスティングプラン which allows you a certain amount of bandwidth. Use more and you'll need to pay for it.
There are several things within your website that use up a lot of bandwidth, including photographs and graphics, and PDF files. These you can manage yourself, by reducing file sizes and compressing images. Some though, such as robots or bot traffic volume you can't control and this can be significant at times. But as robots or bots are generally a good thing, you don't really want to be blocking them. Instead, there are other ways to reduce your website bandwidth.
Ways to Reduce Your Website Bandwidth
To reduce your website bandwidth, you can undertake one or more of the following tasks:
- redirect alternative domain names If you have multiple domain names within the same website, redirect them all to the primary domain.
- compress and optimise the file size of your images before uploading them to your website. A quick Google search will bring you up with several options.
- use the correct image format. Use PNG for logos and jpg for all other image file types. Your home page and template banner are key images to compress.
- reduce your image usage if possible. Images take up a lot of bandwidth to show users on your website.
- delete old and unused PDFs and then if necessary upload PDFs with more compressed versions
- block traffic from specific countries that you do not do business with that consume a lot of your bandwidth. You do this in the Security area under Block Countries.
- show less than 50 images per page. This means less than 50 products per category page
- host videos on either YouTube or Vimeo, with just a link to a video imbedded into your website
- remove unnecessary plugins such as chat boxes, animations and slideshows.
- reduce your use of cloud fonts, using only one cloud font at a time
- lower the number of redirects you have by not having broken links and redirect to consistent URLs
For further assistance, please read our articles How to make a website load faster, Resizing images for your website、 そして The art of fast websites.
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Posted: Monday 22 July 2024
