extremely long random character strings as search terms in stats

  • supernovia · Staff ·

    @musicdoc1 well technically @kokkieh didn’t say what exponent. ;)

    But larger, yes. Please consider using the tools we’ve mentioned to determine how big your page load is and work through it that way. I like webpagetest.org.

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    musicdoc1 · Member ·

    @supernovia,

    Thanks. Yes, I’ll look into these tools. One important question that I’ve raised a multiple times in this thread without receiving a answer is the following:

    Does the size depend at all upon whether the video is uploaded with VideoPress or just embedded with WP YouTube shortcode?

    In other words, does a video that you merely borrow temporarily from YouTube using the embedded video code use the same amount of space as the same video
    downloaded from YouTube and uploaded to your site with VideoPress?

    I ask this because none of the hundreds of videos embedded in pages and posts on my site have been uploaded to the site. So, this may just show my ignorance about the matter, but I’ve been wondering whether the size concerns expressed by @kokkieh even apply in this case, or whether they’re applicable to the same extent.

  • supernovia · Staff ·

    A VideoPress video would use up more of your media storage but that is different from the total that loads up in a person’s browser. A browser must load everything on your page, regardless of who is storing the files.

    I’ve not done a side-by-side with the same videos, same quality, to see whether YouTube of VideoPress loads more in the browser, and how that averages for different videos and browsers. I’d imagine they’re close.

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    musicdoc1 · Member ·

    Thanks again. : )

  • supernovia · Staff ·

    Cheers, @musicdoc1 :)

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