When I first launched this Hobby Website in 2006, I had planned to create a Discussion Forum

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After realizing that there are plenty of discussion boards out there...

I did something different. To my surprise, it went kinda' viral. More than a half-million unique visitors per year.

1.56k

Unique.
Daily Visitors.

Unlike total visit counts, which can include multiple visits by the same individual, unique visitors are counted only once regardless of how many times they visit the site in a day.

25.1k

Total.
Daily Requests.

Every time a user's browser loads a website, it sends a series of requests to the website's server. These requests include fetching HTML files, images, CSS stylesheets, JavaScript files, and other media or data resources needed to display the webpage.

1GB

Total.
Data Served.

This metric includes all the content delivered to users when they visit the site, such as text, images, videos, scripts, and style sheets.

The popularity of my hobby website created a dilemma for me.
I needed clients and potential clients searching the web for me, to get my business website, not this hobby website.
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Monitoring and optimizing the amount of data served has led to significant improvements in website efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Privacy Policy
When I launched this hobby website back in 2006, I did not plan for 1,500 unique visitors per day... heck, I would have crashed and burned.
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However, I have always made an effort to improve the website as time went by. What you see here today is a far cry from where it all began with my first creation.

Optimization Strategies

To optimize the total data served, I have implemented strategies like image compression, code minification (for CSS and JavaScript), lazy loading for images and videos and leveraged browser caching.

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I've learned so much about publishing on the internet over the years. Even still, with limited resources it is difficult to make a website do everything you would like.

User Experience

The less data a website needs to serve, the faster it will load for users, especially those with slower internet connections or limited data plans.

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The bulk of the data I transfer is the photos of the old guns. Considerable time and effort goes into resizing and compresssing the images. I sincerely hope you enjoy this site as much as I have in creating and publishing it.