My web site contains a lot of images which account for the majority of the size of my web site. How does Ekko Express help in this case?
Images can consume a large portion of the overall size of a web site, but they usually consume a small percentage of bandwidth when compared to HTML. The reason is that web servers only deliver images one time to end users regardless of the number of times a web page is downloaded. This is because the images are cached by the browser and they do not change often. The images will stay in the browser’s cache until the cache is purged or until the image has changed on the server. This means that for an average web site, an end user may download the images on a page one time in a month, for example: 5 images at 10K each for a total of 50K downloaded is typical for a home page. But they could download the same home page 20 times per month. The average web page size is about 35K. 35K x 20 downloads is 700KB of html versus 50KB of images. In this scenario, images would only consume about 7% of the bandwidth compared to HTML.
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