If you have not unlimited webhosting
than its very common that after your website become popular and you get
lots of visitors daily your monthly bandwidth limit may exceed which
results in blockage of your website. This is really bad after you have
done so much hard work to achieve the level you want but Bandwidth limit
is stopping your site and hence you are losing precious visitors which
may become customers in future. Also its very good for SEO that you blog
get down for days even for hours. So the solution is just upgrade to
unlimited package or cut down the Bandwidth usage by some simple tricks.
Enable Compression in cPanel.
The biggest and most effective trick
which will definitely reduce 30- 50% of your bandwidth usage is by
enabling the compression of files in cPanel of your website. What this
feature will do is to compress all the images and files on your blog
server and send it to visitors browser in the form of zip file. Not only
this feature will reduce bandwidth usage but also increases the loading
time of your blog. You may be wondering how zip file will be read by
browsers. Well most of the modern browsers will uncompress zip file and
convert it into your blog layout but for older browsers your web-server
will send them uncompressed files so don’t worry.
1. Login into your cPanel account and click on Optimize Website under Softwares/Services menu.
2. Now select the option Compress all content and click on Update Settings.
Disable Hotlinking.
Another most common issue with popular
sites is Hotlinking. There are lots of content thieves who will not only
copy all your blog text data but also copy image links of your blog.
Which means that they will steal your blog bandwidth as they are linking
your images in there blog. All the images that will show in thieves
blog will be loading from your blog and hence your bandwidth will
increase. This problem is often known as Hotlinking.
To disable Hotlinking you have to edit
your blog .htaccess file present in the root directory of your blog.
Simply put the code mention below in the .htaccess file and save the
file. Remember to change my blog name with your blog name. What this
code will do is to show nothing when your blog images will be Hotlinking
by other bloggers.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?internet-khazana.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg|js|css|png)$ – [F]
Host Theme images on Image Hosting sites.
One of the most used image files of your
blog are your theme image files which are downloaded over and over
again which means lots of bandwidth usage. Now there is a very useful
and easy trick to tackle with this problem. You can upload all your
themes images files onto free image hosting websites like Tinypic,
Picasa, Flickr, Blogspot and than use direct image links from there to
load image files. What this will do is to load files every time from
these free images hosting websites and you will save your precious
bandwidth. Also this will increase your blog loading time and speed as
most of the image hosting providers servers are way faster than yours.
Enable Cache Plugin.
If you have not install or enable cache plugin in your blog than do it now. Install Wp-Super Cache or Wp-Total Cache plugin for WordPress
so that all your files will be converted into simple plain HTML files.
This makes it easy for web browsers to store files locally on client
computer and hence they will show these stored files to visitors each
time they request them not from your webserver.
Reduce Image Sizes.
Unless you have a unlimited bandwidth
don’t use more than one image in each article. Also before uploading
convert all your digital images(camera, screen shots) into jpg format
and all your graphics images(vector files) into Gif format. You will see
a amazing size difference when you convert your images into these
formats. Also set jpg images quality to 60% only not more than that.