For Mr. Ghisler: 37.000.000 page views

[chrizoo]

Hi. This posting is addressed to Mr. Ghisler.

Since there is no forum section concerning the web site, I will post this here.

I've just realized that www.ghisler.com has 37.000.000 page views, so it would save bandwith to convert

http://www.ghisler.com/images/top.logo.gif
to
http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/9363/toplogox.png

which has only 4341 bytes, thus achieves file size savings of 23% compared to the .gif file.

Non-transparent .png files have been correctly supported by browsers for about 10 years and virtually all of todays gif-compatible browsers can also display .png files.

[ghisler(Author)]

Fortunately the bandwidth is no longer the limiting factor on my current host, at least for small images. Just the file downloads need to be placed on external servers.

[chrizoo]

Maybe I got my calculations wrong, but

1296 bytes (savings) * 37.000.000 = 45731 GB

*looking surprised*

Anyway, if that's not of any relevance, this thread should maybe be moved or deleted.

[HolgerK]

Maybe I got my calculations wrong

Yes!

1296 * 37.5e6 / 2^30 =~ 45 GiBytes

Replacing "Count.cgi.gif" with alphanumeric text, every page view would save a total of 4,167Bytes (- number of bytes for text)!

4150 * 37.5e6 / 2^30 =~ 144 GiBytes.

Holger

[chrizoo]

oooooooooopsie

[ghisler(Author)]

On my current host, I'm getting 1 TByte traffic per month...