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In this article Jeff Atwood (a rockstar programmer and one of
StackOverflow website founders) discusses the measures of how you can reduce you bandwidth usage and refers specifically on high trafficked websites for which bandwidth is more costly than for an average website.
This is his experience and you can read more on his post on CodingHorror.com.