I would prefer to ask the questions - why am I providing 3 second updates? What practical value do 3 second updates have for most users?? What is the point??
On Monday, 20 February 2017 19:33:27 UTC+2, tempus wrote: > This is merely a suggestion for consideration. > > Space characters are commonly used within and between key-value pairs in > associative arrays to improve human readability. Because 'gauge-data.txt' > human-readability isn't important, the file could be reduced in size 158 > bytes, plus another 15 bytes if spaces after commas in the "WindRoseData" > string were removed, which would make the file 10 percent smaller. > > 173 bytes doesn't seem like much. However, with 3-second updates there > will 86400 / 3 = 28,800 file transmissions per day to each concurrent > user. 28,800 x 173 bytes = 4,982,400 unnecessary bytes-per-day-per-user. > It is not uncommon for individual pages at active websites to have large > numbers of concurrent visitors, so why waste the bandwidth and processing > time? > > Bob > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
