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Lowering Bandwidth Costs for Slash-based Sites

posted by janrinok on Wednesday March 12 2014, @07:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the I-was-doing-OK-until-it-mentioned-perl dept.

xyzzyyzzyx writes:

"Avantslash is touting a user hosted perl script that, if paired with any web browser with JavaScript, promises to shave crucial bytes off of the standard Slash-based experience, one of which is our very own SoylentNews. Audiences include those with very limited bandwidth, such as those in developing countries with only 2G mobile access or dialup."

 
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  • (Score: 2) by everdred on Thursday March 13 2014, @06:18PM

    by everdred (110) on Thursday March 13 2014, @06:18PM (#16102) Homepage Journal

    I can actually answer this from experience, having run a public instance of Avantslash for about a day now. The average pageview weighs in at just under 5 KB.

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  • (Score: 1) by hankwang on Friday March 14 2014, @06:37PM

    by hankwang (100) on Friday March 14 2014, @06:37PM (#16667) Homepage

    5 kB is quite low. Is your server doing gzip/deflate compression?

    • (Score: 1) by everdred on Wednesday March 19 2014, @11:29AM

      by everdred (110) on Wednesday March 19 2014, @11:29AM (#18576) Homepage Journal

      gzip is enabled. It seems to compress pages down about 60%, but they're rather small to begin with.

      (Thank you for the software, by the way!)

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