Gallery Bandwidth usage

[fanncy pants]

Is it just me, or does the gallery use up a lot of bandwith, even if just accessing your control panels, etc?  I don't have much in my gallery yet, just a couple pics uploaded, I just moved to a new host, and already, I've managed to use up a lot of bandwidth.  I check my webalizer stats, and it's not my visitors, who are rare at the moment, that are using up my b/w.  It seems that the gallery is.  Anyone else notice this?

[Nossie]

Hi fanncy pants,

I have to admit .. that compared to my site the gallery uses up very little bandwidth and I know for a fact that it gets accessed a lot...

what might make a difference is the size of your files...

no non pro (i.e billboard poster size) graphic should be much more than 100 to 150k for web use....

if you are on a cable provider and so are your visitors then 500k or so per visitor would result in a higher bandwidth than most...

hope that helps

(\).

[kief24]

question about bandwidht usage :

if someone visits a page with a pic of 80 kb, that 80 kb is added to bandwidth usage ( +bandwidht of all other code of that page )
if that person downloads that pic from that page, another 80 kb is added to bandwidht usage.
If the person prints that pic ( with the phprint.php script mentioned in this forum ) the pic opens up in a new browser window to print it, and again it is 80 kb bandwidht.

So, 3x80=240kb is used to see the pic, download and print it ? right ?


i ask this because i deactivated the download and print options ( now visitors can do it with right-click ) , in order to reduce the bandwidht usage of the site.

So i expected in stead of "240" kb it would be "80" kb.(or at least less than 240)


But bandwidht usage stays the same..?
Am i right about the downloading and the printing >>> adding the size of the pic to the bandwidht usage ?

[V@no]

if a browser does not cache the images, it will download it again even by right click...

[kief24]

are images cached on the visitors computer when someone visit a 4images site ? ( ver. 1.7 )

[V@no]

it doesnt metter what software is used on the server, it metter what software is used on the client's computer and how its setup.
Opera browsers are caching everything by default, and actualy that makes it even more pain in the @$$ to use, but because of that they are considered being the fasters browsers out there.
FF also caching, but I dont have enough info on them. IE browsers also caching, but what makes it different from the rest is that it obbeys servers requests not to cache!. So, if your server is sending such request to the client, IE will download files, show them and then delete them from the cache.
Some servers setup to send such request by default, no metter what script is being used on it.
If you want, you can pm me with a link to your gallery, I can check if its the case.