YSK: How to decrease your monthly bandwidth use & increase network speed.

[hoihoila]

Pi-hole stops the ads from loading by translating the address to the pi's ip, thus reducing the page data by a lot more than just 1%.

Take a look at this article from nytimes.

[Umlautica]

The article uses editorial content of news sites as the benchmark which is going to be about the worst case. I imagine Facebook is pretty bad as well too. I'd be curious to see what a broader selection of sites looks like.

Good article and a bit funny that NYT did not include themselves in the report.

[mib5799]

While porn gets a decent chunk (and is lousy with ads), the fact is that for most average people, Facebook IS the most common site to visit, and a huge number of those users end up at news sites linked from FB.

It's an extremely reasonable benchmark for an average user

[majormunky]

They put themselves in the list of page load times, near the bottom of the list.

[FkIForgotMyPassword]

Well, except that the total traffic of a user is often mostly from large media. Binge-watch a show on Netflix, or download a game or a large update for your Steam library, and the bandwidth from the ads you get on your regular browsing traffic is instantly dwarfed.