Got High Bandwidth?
Tue, 30 May, 2006 – 5:34 pm
Today I was helping out a friend, looking into why his bandwidth had shot up since March, when there's been no difference in visitors, page views and hits. After a lot of trawling through AWStats I discovered 17GB worth of images being transferred, but I couldn't pinpoint which ones were causing the problem until I opened Webalizer.
Now I'm not a fan of Webalizer usually, the stats it reports seem inaccurate, it's very hard to read, it doesn't give you the good information that AWStats does, however for once it gave me exactly what I needed. After a quick look I found the top 10 URLs by KBytes, and this showed me the top bandwidth using file (at a massive 14GB) was an animated gif of 881kb! Change it to a static image and save it as optimised and that would reduce to around 20kb max, just 350MB bandwidth.
That's a big saving when it comes to bandwidth costs.
So Webalizer isn't totally useless.
