Blink, Blink…”Whoops”

Posted on Tuesday the 5th of February, 2008 at 12:44 pm in Asides

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

Summary by Month
Month Monthly Totals
KBytes Visits Pages Files Hits
Feb 2008 3769739 8427 24576 121569 132159
Jan 2008 3634098 36357 131454 429936 478043

Didn’t notice anything odd? Take a look at the first 4 days of the month below (focus on the bold column.)

Daily Statistics for February 2008
Day Hits Files Pages Visits KBytes
1 12484 11167 3915 1194 100.954
2 14990 13412 5617 1273 136.491
3 41622 37873 7236 2417 1.288.875
4 62827 58979 7763 3544 2.242.575

If you noticed, Yah, seriously, but if you didn’t: in two days I used as much bandwidth as the previous months. It turns out that on the SoBe Lizard 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.

Turns out that each one of those 5 images were about 200KB. It wouldn’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.)

Like I said: blink, blink…woops.

Update: I contacted my host, 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’ve never had an issue with them (unlike most of my previous hosts.)

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  1. ND SIsoev posted the following on February 10, 2008 at 11:34 am.

    One must be very careful about the post content, because of the impact it could have on server and bandwidth load.
    In Truden Web Site I had about 50 GB difference on a month, coming from a single *.mp3 file.

    See August in the image bellow:

    Reply to ND SIsoev
    1. ND Sisoev posted the following on February 10, 2008 at 11:37 am.

      Well, I see that no image post is allowed in the comments.
      Here is the image: IMAGE

      Reply to ND Sisoev
    2. Aaron posted the following on February 12, 2008 at 10:04 pm.

      That really hurts. It would have killed my website because I only buy 5GB a month, and I rarely use it all (all the AJAX helps keep costs down.)

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