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Authored by: mzajac on Oct 30, '03 03:02:21PM

One more point to keep in mind: an RSS feed will be saving bandwidth by reducing home page hits, and not wasting it.

When you get etags working right, my RSS reader will only be downloading the whole 22 kB feed once whenever it's updated (normally once per day?).

Without a good RSS feed, I'd be hitting the home page and downloading 60 kB+ of HTML, several times per day, plus images, CSS and javascript.

The better quality your feed, the more people will use it and the more bandwidth you will save. It may even be worth experimenting with different feeds (e.g. titles only, short excerpts, full text, feeds for comment threads).

PS: found a list of feed readers that support etags.



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