Importance of Bandwidth in Web Hosting

29 July, 2010 (19:29) | Hosting | By: admin

Among the factors involving in web hosting like web server space, up time, quality customer support and extra control panel options; bandwidth seems to be the most important thing to consider about. Your website performance mainly depends on this key feature sometimes named as data transfer. The purpose of bandwidth is to provide the means for in coming and out going traffic from your website.

More the data transfer rate batter the performance of your website and vice versa. If you analyze a website being a visitor you will observe the effects. No one like to visit a website that loads slower because it takes much time to be displayed onto your web browser. Internet connection speed doesn’t have the ability of loading a page with high speed, but it largely depends on the bandwidth of the website you are going to visit. It can be easily examined by opening a low bandwidth website with a high speed internet connection. The result will be the same; site would take more than enough time to be loaded in the browser.

So, how can we increase the bandwidth of a website? Is there any way to optimize the available constant bandwidth offered by a cheap web hosting or even free web hosting service provider? Yes, there are! While during the design process of a website one should be very careful about the size of the website pages. Always avoid uploading video and audio file on the web pages because they increase the size of the page as these files occupy huge space. Normally a well designed web page is not more than 60 kb. It takes very less time to be loaded on the browser.

Use of CSS and scripting language like Java can also help in reducing the page size by lessening the tables and tags during the design phase. Limited use of graphics is also beneficial to achieve good page load rate. Moreover, several filters can also be used to reduce the size of the page.