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Dave
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2013-07-15, 14:26

Someone was asking for "new homepage" advice, and I said "blank" because not having to load a page every time a tab or window is opened speeds up the browser. I was going to say it saves bandwidth, too, but then I realized that, while obviously true, I have no idea how much that would actually affect things. Google is being oddly unhelpful... Do any of you know how much bandwidth is wasted each <unit time> by browsers unnecessarily loading a homepage? And is it enough to measurably affect bandwidth or latency for everyone else?

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2013-07-15, 14:37

That's an interesting question - I was just hearing on Science Friday last week that every tweet uses the equivalent of 0.25 W-h of electricity. I'm assuming that's calculated by taking the total power usage of the data centers that host Twitter and dividing it by the number of tweets.

I found an article that investigated the power usage of a single Google search:

http://greenmonk.net/2010/04/28/clou...stems-vendors/

It's from a few years ago but it's still interesting.

I'm not sure how much this affects things like latency or bandwidth for other users. Obviously, when a particular website gets very popular, it can slow the site down for everyone, but I don't know enough about networking to say if more users will always slow it down or if that only kicks in once you go over a certain limit. Maybe it does, but it's imperceptible.
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DMBand0026
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2013-07-15, 18:40

You'd also have to factor in which users have browser caches turned on or off as well. For some users, "loading" a page isn't really loading it, it's simply accessing a recently cached version of that page that's saved on their computer somewhere. I think a lot of us forget about that because really fast connections, which most of us here have, mean caching pages isn't really that necessary anymore.

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