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Can long image filenames in HTML cause high bandwidth?

Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2015 10:44 am
by simonmlewis
We have an issue where a web site we manage is getting over 158GB of bandwidth within 24 days.
Of our bigger sites has much higher usage statistics, but the bandwidth is roughly the same. So comparitively, this web site has a problem somewhere.

The images are all roughly the same size. Certainly not 10 times the size. But they do have some rather long filenames. I found one with 59 characters before the .jpg.

If we have alot of these, would that cause high bandwidth? I'm thinking probably not, as it's tiny amounts of bytes.

Re: Can long image filenames in HTML cause high bandwidth?

Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2015 10:51 am
by Celauran
No, that is certainly not the cause.

Re: Can long image filenames in HTML cause high bandwidth?

Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2015 11:12 am
by simonmlewis
I just checked two product pages of the one in question and the one that has the higher hits. Both had three large photos. But around 4mb for the product page and content. Irrespective of the overall size, the "problem" one was actually lower.

The big hitter gets around 60-80,000 hits a day. The other problem one, more like 5000-7000 a day.

Re: Can long image filenames in HTML cause high bandwidth?

Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2015 11:14 am
by Celauran
simonmlewis wrote:around 4mb for the product page and content
Wow.

Re: Can long image filenames in HTML cause high bandwidth?

Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2015 11:21 am
by simonmlewis
I know!!!
But they need to be large images, and the thumbnails tend to be a few hundred as they are wide enough to fit a mobile.
I don't think they compress their images enough....

Re: Can long image filenames in HTML cause high bandwidth?

Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2015 6:55 pm
by marshallunduemi
Actually text does not cause load on site, only the size of file (images) does and video files, but keep it nice :drunk:

Re: Can long image filenames in HTML cause high bandwidth?

Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2015 4:46 am
by simonmlewis
Yeah.
We are now looking at scripts that prevent things loading on mobile, not just "display: none", so that will help on GPRS/E/3G loads too.