You have just received the web hosting service bill and this month the payment exceeded the usual sum. Web hosting provider explains that the reason is the increasing of your website monthly minimum of information exchange quote, and they recommend to decrease your website size. What is the metric of information interchange and capacity? What size of capacity is necessary for you? How to reduce an information interchange metric? Let's more in detail disassemble each of these questions.
What is "an information interchange metric"?
It is the total amount of the information transferred monthly by a site to users. Each website file has its size, e.g. 22 KB. Each time when a user downloads this file, the information interchange metric increases by to this number. The bigger is size of the uploading file and the bigger is the amount of users, the are the higher is information interchange metric.
What is the capacity?
Capacity is the amount of information which can be transferred within a certain period of time. Data transfer metric is speed showing how quickly the information from one device to another can be transferred. Information metric is usually measured in megabits (million of bits) per second or megabytes (million of bytes) per second and are marked as MBps (megabyte per second).
Bits and bytes
8 bits is 1 byte.
1,024 bytes = 1 Kilobyte (Kb).
1,024 kilobytes (Kb) = 1Megabyte (Mb or meg)
1,024 megabytes = 1 Gigabyte (GB or Gbyte or gig)
What size of capacity is necessary for you?
To define necessary size of capacity, it is necessary to count up the size of each web page, and then to multiply by quantity of pages of a site. Multiply by prospective quantity of reviews of your pages during a month. For example, the web page has two maps on 15 KB everyone, and also contains the text of of 3 KB, i.e. your page has the size of 33 KB. Now multiply this number by number of prospective page views during a month (for example, 100,000 reviews during a month). It means that for this page in a month it is required to transfer 3.3 GB information. Now output this number for each page and, thereby, you will get to know approximate size of an exchange information necessary for the site.
How to decrease the information interchange metric?
The most simple way is to decrease the website files size, namely size of images and other graphics used. For example, the webpage contains a big image (i.e.: 200 KB), which uploads each time a user opens a page. If you reduce the image size to 20 KB or remove it from your page, you reduce the information information interchange metric and increase the webpage load speed.
Websites containing MP3 music, movies, sound effects or large images require bigger capacity. Popular websites need bigger capacity as well. Information interchange metric should not be big if your website contains simple HTML pages and small images.
If you add files or page to your website calculate the total website size again. Define what amount of users you should have for the next few months. Calculate the capacity again. You may need more disk space and more size of capacity for effective website functioning. Inquire your web hosting provider whether it is possible to move to another web hosting plan which allows to increase the disk space and capacity.
Conclusion
Now you can avoid getting big tickets shock reception of the big scores for excess of a metric of information interchange. You are ready to get a big amount of website visitors and consequently increase sales.
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