Comments on: Improved HTTP Connections http://www.dftproject.org/blog/2007/03/27/improved-http-connections/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:14:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: Anders Berg http://www.dftproject.org/blog/2007/03/27/improved-http-connections/#comment-1764 Anders Berg Thu, 05 Apr 2007 06:04:42 +0000 http://www.dftproject.org/blog/2007/03/27/improved-http-connections/#comment-1764 Not directly related to your post, but I wonder how much bandwidth Genesis consumes from the sites you are searching? I am a little hesitant to submit my site because of this. Not directly related to your post, but I wonder how much bandwidth Genesis consumes from the sites you are searching? I am a little hesitant to submit my site because of this.

]]> By: Hilton http://www.dftproject.org/blog/2007/03/27/improved-http-connections/#comment-1767 Hilton Thu, 05 Apr 2007 17:36:34 +0000 http://www.dftproject.org/blog/2007/03/27/improved-http-connections/#comment-1767 I don't have any numbers, but I can paint the situation for you. You can expect an increase in bandwidth consumption because, as it is a lot easier to search all PGV sites using Genesis than it is to visit them one-by-one with a web browser, you will have more "visitors". At the same time, however, a search by Genesis of your site consumes much <i>less</i> bandwidth than a search through a web browser (Genesis doesn't download all the images or HTML markup, just raw data). Also, because the order of the sites is randomized with each search in Genesis, and because users probably don't wait for every site to be searched, your site won't get hit as often as it might otherwise seem. If you do list your site and then find that too much bandwidth is being consumed, you can block it (instructions are available at http://www.dftproject.org/wiki/PGVAgent). Also, if you search the Internet for "PGVAgent" you can find a few statistics pages to get an idea. For example, here's one PGV site's March 2007 report: http://webstat3.mediacenter.hu/kovach_hu/usage_200703.html. It seems that only 0.83% of this site's traffic comes from Genesis, with a total of 164 Kb consumed by "genservice.php" requests (which is how Genesis communicates with it, though other sites may also contribute). I don't know if this is particularly meaningful, however. I don’t have any numbers, but I can paint the situation for you. You can expect an increase in bandwidth consumption because, as it is a lot easier to search all PGV sites using Genesis than it is to visit them one-by-one with a web browser, you will have more “visitors”. At the same time, however, a search by Genesis of your site consumes much less bandwidth than a search through a web browser (Genesis doesn’t download all the images or HTML markup, just raw data). Also, because the order of the sites is randomized with each search in Genesis, and because users probably don’t wait for every site to be searched, your site won’t get hit as often as it might otherwise seem.

If you do list your site and then find that too much bandwidth is being consumed, you can block it (instructions are available at http://www.dftproject.org/wiki/PGVAgent).

Also, if you search the Internet for “PGVAgent” you can find a few statistics pages to get an idea. For example, here’s one PGV site’s March 2007 report: http://webstat3.mediacenter.hu/kovach_hu/usage_200703.html. It seems that only 0.83% of this site’s traffic comes from Genesis, with a total of 164 Kb consumed by “genservice.php” requests (which is how Genesis communicates with it, though other sites may also contribute). I don’t know if this is particularly meaningful, however.

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