How to reduce your website's bandwidth usage

There are many items that can impact website disk space. Most server measure this in Gigabytes (Gb).

Below are the common items:

• Unused Files and Images
• Oversized images (Optimise web page images)
  • Many programs that let you add content and images to your website, don't resize the image you upload.
  • For example: if you have a image that has dimension of 4000 x 2000 pixels and 2Mb in size) and you upload this but you only want to display the image 360 x 260 pixels. Unless you have used a image re-sizing program prior to uploading, the image will display at 360 x 260, but still have the dimensions of  4000 x 2000 and 2mb (2000Kb) in size.
  • If the image was resized down to 360 x 260 pixels, it would only be 23kbs.
• PDF files
  • Can be from 150kb to 20Mb.
• Email
  • If you have a large amount of emails stored on the server.
  • If you are using IMAP it will keep all files and folders that are on your PCs