The results are in
March
7165 unique visitors that made a total of 13520 visits.
Total Bandwidth Used: 3.62 GB
April
8475 unique visitors, an increase of 18%, that made a total of 15849 visits, an increase of 17%.
Total Bandwidth Used: 2.22 GB
This represents a savings of almost 39%. This is due nearly completely to two things:
- Blocking hotlinking from my photos
- Optimizing my blog images (header + smilies)
Optimization is totally, totally worth it. Give it a try!
1:53 pm
Nice, Seth.
Anyways, my site gets like, zero traffic, so it’s not much of a problem with me.
8:50 pm
Is my blog still forwarding on the most visitors?
I really should take you off my blog roll…
The way you squeeze all the juice out of your images is barbaric!
5:29 pm
Nice
I get very few visitors. Only like 350 in the month of April. I only use like 20mb of bandwidth
2:52 pm
O dear seth, would you care to explain what optimization is ?
11:41 am
He means like making image file sizes smaller