Guide: Tips on saving your bandwidth

Although most connections nowadays are limitless, you might still find yourself with a very slow connection that you want to speed up as much as possible. The downside to this is that you will probably have to disable some features in order to save bandwidth and this might not provide you with an optimum browsing experience. However, sometimes surfing the internet at reasonable speeds is far more important to people than surfing with all the default luxuries. This guide will show you some basic things you can do to limit bandwidth usage.
Browser settings

Some browsers nowadays offer a semi-hidden feature that will let you browse the internet faster through a barebones mode using a variety of background methods. Two of those browsers are Opera and Chrome for mobiles. The Turbo mode in Opera is almost twice as fast as the normal one and will even operate automatically when the browser detects a very slow internet connection. Chrome’s “Data Compression Proxy” operates in a similar manner and can be activated in the Settings menu. It will make your browsing a lot faster while not compromising content.
Use the mobile version

If you are visiting a site from a mobile device you will usually be redirected to the mobile version of the site automatically, courtesy of the User Agent. However, you might want to use the mobile version even if you are browsing from your computer because the mobile sites are way more compact than the normal ones and you should save a lot of bandwidth by doing so.
Disable whatever you do not need

Disabling features should really be the last resort but sometimes you cannot help it. The best thing you can do is get an extension like Adblock and only allow non-intrusive ads for example. Furthermore, you can disable JavaScript, images and Flash, all from the comfort of your browser. You will find all of these options in the Settings tab of your browser, usually under the Content or Privacy menus.
Disable prefetching

Web content prefetching is a pretty amazing feature of modern browsers. They smartly anticipate the sites you might visit and preload them so that you can browse them quicker if you decide to actually visit them. However, if you are in a bandwidth limited connection then this feature should really be disabled as you are trying to preserve as much usage as possible. Different browsers have different ways to handle this so you will have to go to the Support page to find out how to disable it.

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