Posts Tagged ‘JavaScript’
Don't Host Static Assets
Thursday, June 4th, 2009Bandwidth concerns for web developers used to be centered around the user. I remember making sure every page loaded no more than about 30k worth of assets, just so dial-up users could see my sites in only a few seconds. Now that most users have fast connections, and the few people using dial-up are used to the wait, you can start thinking about how much data your server is pushing out rather than how much data your clients are pulling. Those two numbers do not have to match.
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