Negabytes: the bytes you don’t consume

What is a negabyte? It reminds me of "negawatts", a word used in the energy industry to describe Watts that are saved by switching to more efficient appliances. It seems coining that new nugget of web jargon is the intent of http://www.negabytes.com/, a nice introduction to bandwidth optimization, including a whole bunch of ideas for saving bandwidth that you probably never knew about. If your site gets a kajillion hits a day and you optimize one byte off the page size, you'll have earned a kajillion negabytes. That's money you didn't spend on bandwidth. By its clear navigation structure, negabytes.com implies that all your bandwidth optimization efforts can be placed into three categories: Compression, Omission, and Efficiency. Within, you see carefully enumerated tips. Some tips are elaborated upon, others are not. Each tip is augmented by a little bloggy comment area, so you can write your own reactions. My own experience in bandwidth optimization is that you can often take a carelessly designed page and reduce its size by 30% or more, with zero loss of quality or experience. If you sacrifice validation, you can squash a page even more than that. I led a bandwidth optimization crusade at Geosign and was responsible for saving hundreds of Gb of unnecessary bandwidth consumption on their high-volume web offerings. The monetary savings were significant. You could do the same.