For
example, if you had three 10k images on your page and a 2k
HTML file, you would have 32k of data on that page. Multiply
that by your expected page views (let's say 100,000 per
month), and you get 3.2G of data to be transferred that
month for that page.
Now
recalculate this number for each page, and you will know
approximately how much bandwidth your entire site requires.
How can I save bandwidth?
There
are two key ways to optimize your bandwidth usage:
1.
Keep your pages as small as possible.
This means tight HTML programming to reduce file size, and
compacting your pictures and graphics to reduce image size.
2.
Secure your website.
This is too detailed for one paragraph, but a great article
is located
here when your ready.
Policing bandwidth
The
most basic method of preventing theft of your bandwidth is
policing. Analyze search engines, logs, and other sites to
find out who’s using your images (and your bandwidth)
without permission.
Once
you've identified the offenders, you can contact them and
order them to stop linking to your site (and if they try to
feed you a story about everything on the Internet being in
the "public domain," don't buy it). Unfortunately, policing
sites yourself is a time-consuming task.
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