Anthology of Ideas

Take a look at the following stats and let me know if you see anything odd.

<p>
  Didn&#8217;t notice anything odd? Take a look at the first 4 days of the month below (focus on the bold column.)
</p>

<table  border="2" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" width="400">
  <tr>
    <th colspan="13" align="center" bgcolor="#c0c0c0">
      Daily Statistics for February 2008
    </th>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <th align="center" bgcolor="#c0c0c0">
      Day
    </th>

    <th align="center" bgcolor="#008040">
      Hits
    </th>

    <th align="center" bgcolor="#0080ff">
      Files
    </th>

    <th align="center" bgcolor="#00e0ff">
      Pages
    </th>

    <th align="center" bgcolor="#ffff00">
      Visits
    </th>

    <th align="center" bgcolor="#ff0000">
      KBytes
    </th>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td align="center">
      1
    </td>

    <td align="right">
      12484
    </td>

    <td align="right">
      11167
    </td>

    <td align="right">
      3915
    </td>

    <td align="right">
      1194
    </td>

    <td align="right">
      <b>100.954</b>
    </td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td align="center">
      2
    </td>

    <td align="right">
      14990
    </td>

    <td align="right">
      13412
    </td>

    <td align="right">
      5617
    </td>

    <td align="right">
      1273
    </td>

    <td align="right">
      <b>136.491</b>
    </td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td align="center">
      3
    </td>

    <td align="right">
      41622
    </td>

    <td align="right">
      37873
    </td>

    <td align="right">
      7236
    </td>

    <td align="right">
      2417
    </td>

    <td align="right">
      <b>1.288.875</b>
    </td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td align="center">
      4
    </td>

    <td align="right">
      62827
    </td>

    <td align="right">
      58979
    </td>

    <td align="right">
      7763
    </td>

    <td align="right">
      3544
    </td>

    <td align="right">
      <b>2.242.575</b>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>

<p>
  If you noticed, Yah, seriously, but if you didn&#8217;t: in two days I used as much bandwidth as the previous months. It turns out that on the <a href="http://anthologyoi.dev/best-super-bowl-ever-sobe-life-water/">SoBe Lizard</a> post I added 5 PNG screenshots to the post. Then I went back to the Super Bowl party. Well, Google found it very quickly, a lot of people searched for it, and the post ranked very high, so that one post got the Google version of the slash-dot effect.
</p>

<p>
  Turns out that each one of those 5 images were about 200KB. It wouldn&#8217;t have been a big deal on a normal post, but it meant that each visitor downloaded about a Megabyte of images every page load. (In comparison, the CSS, JavaScript and the HTML files adds up to about 31KB.)
</p>

<p>
  Like I said: blink, blink&#8230;woops.
</p>

<p>
  <strong>Update:</strong> I contacted <a href="http://www.medialayer.com">my host</a>, and asked to buy more bandwidth, and they were kind enough to grant me an extra 3 GB of bandwidth for free. I love this company: I&#8217;ve never had an issue with them (unlike most of my previous hosts.)
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