Why is my website slow?
I had been wondering why my website was slow for a few months and then I started getting emails warning me of excessive bandwidth. Really? I don’t think my website should be that popular… I wondered what was going on…
Here’s what the bandwidth transferred from my site for March 2010 through March 2011. You’ll notice it started to spike in April 2010.
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Bandwidth Transferred from mura.org - March 2010 to March 2011
Holy smokes, 19+ GB of bandwidth in January?!?!?!
I dug into what was going on and found a number of things…
- Some fool decided to link to a 3MB collage I created from the covers of the DVD’s I own. In addition to the spike in traffic from the people viewing the linked image, folks found the original post and that also started a spiral of spider hits I think. (See the separate post on My .1 seconds of Internet fame! — this link will work after that post is published.)
- A number of folks found my link to the Kathy Sierra video from NMC 2009. The player (on my site) plays the media (stored on NMC’s site) — and sends all the bandwith to support the playback from my site.
- Spiders started to go wild on my site. (See the separate post on Slowing down the spiders — this link will work after that post is published.)
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