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Nuances of Bandwidth for Both Webmasters and Internet Users

Online bandwidth is the measurement of the amount of digital information that a medium is capable of processing and transferring. Mediums with higher levels of bandwidth are capable of loading the same amount of information more quickly or more information over the same time interval. This concept is most commonly used with website owners. They need to know how much data they can process.

Both Internet users and Website owners must take bandwidth metrics with a grain of salt

You have probably noticed that Internet bandwidth speeds have surged since the beginning of the Internet. One expert that I spoke with said it was not uncommon for dial-up connection is in the late 1990s to have been with speeds of only 100 kps. By 2007, bandwidth speeds reached 3.67 MB per second. That figure increased by 404% over the next 10 years.

At first glance, this seems like an encouraging development for Internet users and brands trying to reach customers through the digital marketplace. However, there are other issues that need to be taken into consideration. While Internet speeds are increasing at a record rate, they can easily be offset by large caching requirements of cumbersome websites.

Both webmasters and Internet users must recognize that there are issues that could limit load times, regardless of bandwidth capacities.

Get the best hosting plan

Getting a good hosting plan is essential. You need to choose a plan with a great hosting for small business e-commerce to make sure you have sufficient bandwidth.

Visually intensive websites load slower even with excellent bandwidth

Many factors affect website loading times. One of the most significant is the amount of visuals on the webpage. Every image or video needs to be cached from the visitor’s ISP before it can be loaded. Adding three times as much visual data to the page could increase in already slow loading webpage loading time from 1.5 seconds to three seconds.

Caching times will be higher for customers located far away from the webpage server

A growing number of websites are catering to Internet users in different regions around the world. Their challenge is to make sure that websites load quickly for customers and all of those regions.

Reducing artificial latency by matching website visitors with the closest server could reduce low times by 64%, according to a case study from ancestry.com. Similar observations were made with The Telegraph. One way to accomplish this is by using a content delivery network to connect visitors to the closest server.

Being mindful of bandwidth restrictions at the other end of the connection

Many website operators invest in hosting plans with exceptional bandwidth capacities. They expect that their webpages will load quickly for customers. The problem is that customers often have bandwidth limitations on their end, which bottlenecks loading times.

This problem is especially common in Australia. Australia has one of the worst website loading times in the world. Customers there have worse Internet connections than people in most of Africa and other developing economies.

Webmasters must be realistic about the limitations on the client end of the connection. If they are serving lots of customers in Australia, rural parts of the country or other areas with poor website connections, then they might need to rethink their webpage optimization approach to ensure their pages load more quickly.

What steps should customers take to improve low times?

If you are trying to access a webpage that is not loading quickly, then you might need to take some steps to improve load times. Here are some things that you might need to try.

Clear your browser cache

You might have more trouble downloading images from a webpage while you have a full browser cache. You can try clearing it to get your page to load more quickly. You just need to take the steps:

  • Click the history tab in the history drop-down box in Google Chrome
  • Click clear browsing data in the left sidebar
  • Specify the time range in the drop-down box in the new browser window (The default setting is “last 24 hours” which is usually sufficient)
  • Make sure that “cached images in files” is selected in the checkbox (this is usually the default setting, so you shouldn’t have to change anything)
  • Click the “clear data” button

That should be enough to speed up your website loading times.

Tried to stop displaying images on the current webpage

In some circumstances, this is not going to be a practical option. You might need to see all visual elements on the webpage. However, if you are only interested in reading the text on the page, then you might want to try disabling images from downloading.

You can try using this chrome plug-in. It will keep webpages from displaying images, so you can increase webpage loading times by 250% or more.

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