Are Long URLs Wasting Bandwidth? 379
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."
Who knows? (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Can they not use... (Score:5, Funny)
Whatever (Score:2, Funny)
75 MBit/s? What's that in Libraries of Congress per decifortnight?
Re:Can they not use... (Score:5, Funny)
They should just move all the GET parameters to POST. Problem solved. ;)
Re:Who knows? (Score:2, Funny)
One man's waste is another man's treasure. Some say, "The world is my oyster." I say, "The world is my dumpster."
Wasted bandwidth, indeed.
Re:Depending on your viewpoint (Score:1, Funny)
Customer bulletin (Score:5, Funny)
In order to maximize the web experience for all customers, effective immediately all websites with URLs in excess of 16 characters will be bandwidth throttled.
Sincerely,
Comcast
Better idea (Score:5, Funny)
Just use a smaller font for the URL!
African or European? (Score:1, Funny)
75 MBit/s? What's that in Libraries of Congress per decifortnight?
Depends. Is it an African or European Library of Congress?
Re:Can they not use... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Can they not use... (Score:5, Funny)
That's nothing. This [tinyurl.com] is the most disgusting shit you'll ever see on the Internet.
Re:Can they not use... (Score:5, Funny)
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http://tinyurl.com/6rywju [tinyurl.com]
Tiny url is not all bad, this is one example of a positive use.
Acrnym (Score:3, Funny)
To fthr sav our bdwdth, ^A txt shld be cmprsd into acrnyms!
Re:Can they not use... (Score:3, Funny)
I was disappointed, too. I was expecting a link to idle.slashdot.org.