How to Reduce your Blog Bandwidth More than 300%

November 25th, 2009 | Categories: Web Site Tips

I want to show you a great tip that can boost your blog loading time and overall performances. By applying this trick on my blog, I was pleasantly surprised how great it works. I was specially surprised with my bandwidth results!

A bandwidth is a very important factor for every website on the internet. This term is used often with hosting companies and describe the amount of data transferred between your blog and your hosting provider for a given period of time – usually monthly.

Bandwidth Optimization

Bandwidth optimization can be done on every website on the internet. Optimizing your website may improve the performance and stability of your website for sure.

There are many techniques that can reduce and optimize your bandwidth cost. In this article I will show you how to successfully optimize your wordress powered blog with just a few clicks.

You can do that by installing the following plug-ins on your blog:

You should know that these plugins can easily work without each other! But, they can work even better with combination of those two!

Free CDN

This is a great plug-in which may reduce your blog bandwidth drastically and improve your blog overall response time and performances for sure.

This plug-in works on the simple process: It rewrite your static URL’s with other URL which is served from other servers through the world – and not your own host server.

Free CDN

This may work for all your crucial files like JavaScripts, CSS, Images, Flash elements, videos and even files on your blog by attaching them to the another server with extension .nyud.net

This way, all these files are NOT loaded directly from your hosting server! And that is a way this service works – simple and very effective method you have to admit!

If you are paying bandwidth fee, this plug-in hopefully helps with your bills. Even if you don’t, enabling it may save your site in peak times.

WP Super Cache

WP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress. It generates html files that are served directly by Apache without processing comparatively heavy PHP scripts. By using this plugin you will speed up your WordPress blog significantly.

WP Super Cache Plugin

This is a plugin which works entirely different than above one. It caches your static files on your blog, providing to your visitors them – not dynamic files.

This plugin can drastically speed up your blog just by enabling it through the interface. And yes, it works great with the above mentioned plugin.

With combination of those two plugins, you can improve and reduce your website bandwidth drastically! Additionally, you will optimize your website and your files on it.

How it Works in Practice

Well, below, I will show you how these two plugins works in the practice! I will show you how these plugins works on this blog:

Bash Bosh Bandwidth Stats

Above you can see values for the last 10 days of traffic on this blog! 5 days without these two plugins active and 5 days with activated plugins.

You can obviously see there is so much difference between my blog consumption! Very good results I have to say definitely! I have to note that visitors are even higher in the last 5 days when I have get more than 3 times less bandwidth use!

You should definitely install these plugins into your blog! See how your bandwidth goes down from day to day and low your bandwidth costs! Enjoy!

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  1. December 1st, 2009 at 22:04

    I have been searching for weeks trying to get my hands on the latest trading software, I finally found a great blog full of information.

  2. December 9th, 2009 at 10:43

    I had no idea of bandwidth is and we could easily optimize it in an simple manner. I am sure that many people be happy as they have got the real idea of how they can reduce the bandwidth.

  3. December 19th, 2009 at 05:55

    Good post for people to know more about Bandwidth and it will be surely very helpful indeed. It is very great indeed.

  4. February 11th, 2010 at 00:31

    I agree I too was searching for bandwidth answers…great post…

  5. February 16th, 2010 at 00:30

    Great Blog Post! My blog just exceeded monthly bandwidth for the first time as my traffic increases. I am going to install these plug-ins as soon as I can access my blog again!

    Steve