Disk Space
is also known as disk or storage capacity, disk storage, in general means maximum amount of data a disc, disk, or drive can hold.
In Practical, Disk space refers to the amount of storage space a web host allocates to a website and all associated files (text, images, code, databases, etc.) on a server. Disk space is provided by Web Hosting Service Provider.
Bandwidth
Along with disk space you need to understand another parameter known as Bandwidth describes the level of traffic, and amount of data that can transfer between your site, users, and the Internet, in a specific amount of time.
Understanding Disk space and Bandwidth and how much you need them for your WordPress website is essential when choosing a hosting package or predicting how much you might need in the future……
Why you have to manage the disk space?
When you create a new page, upload a new image or install a new plugin, it gets stored on the disk space. The more files you upload to your disk space or server, it becomes fuller.
Thus, File sizes affect your site–they increase the loading time of your site and thus slows down your website along with the performance.
How to manage file size and free-up disk space?
Most of the space taken up by websites lies in multimedia files, which means either images or video, knowing that, let’s see how we can manage these file types and optimize your site such that it increases the performance of your website.
Image Optimization
By Reducing the size of images and videos used in your website, usually images are flexible in nature and they vary up to Kilobytes(KB) & Megabytes(MB), and images are also affected by its resolution(Low or High or Medium),dimensions(Width or Height) & its type(PNG or JPG or JPEG). Basically, if an image is of large size it will take more time to load.
Therefore, optimization of images can be done by three ways: –
- Manually resizing the images: – As we know that there are many image editors available, from which we can resize the images that are required to us. For example: – Paint, Photoshop etc.
- Optimize online:- There are many online image compressors , converters are available each with different functionality thus, optimizing image in the sense it covers the following parameter such as size, quality of the image (resolution) and even file format of the image, images can be stripped also thus everything can be changed as per our requirement, so that we can have complete control over the image. You can upload a set of images and get back your desired result at a time. For example: – Online image optimizer, Tiny PNG, Resize Photos etc.
- By using Plugins: – We can use WordPress Plugins so that it performs image optimization. Although plugins tend to take up some site resources themselves, they can make image optimization very easy for you. All you need to do is upload and configure it and the plugin will automatically manage all image optimization for you in the future.
Reducing the size of Videos
Coming to videos, generally videos are more attractive and deliver the things clearly hence when we want to convey our message to users rather than text format, image format, we can put up videos. Basically, videos take large amount of space on the server, hence there is necessity of reducing the size of video or optimizing it. Which can be done by: –
- Reduce the length of the video: – The videos have to be smart and short, by keeping up this, we can have complete control over the video as well as managing time to our users. Most of them doesn’t like to spend most of their time in watching longer videos. If you have longer videos that you need to share, try cutting them up into segments and posting them as a series.
- Control Audio Bit-rate: – Videos are made up of a combination of audio and video and these two components can be controlled separately. By reducing the audio bitrate, we can reduce the size of the video.
- Through online: – we can manage editing and optimizing the videos online as per our requirements, there are many choices available online choose the best. For example: – Handbrake, Pinnacle studio, i Movie etc.
So, there are many ways you can optimize both images and video to lower the space taken up by your WordPress site. They are simple to use and, in many cases, can be completely free. The most important thing to remember is not to take images and video for granted. Even with unlimited space, using bulky images and video can result in bad user experience. Also, it can be time-consuming.
Conclusion
We hope these tips will give you an idea of how to manage your disk space. If you have any questions or need assistance regarding optimization efforts, please contact us. we will help you to optimize & speed up your complete website.
