Mobile devices―smartphones, tablets and other portable Wi-Fi devices―seem to be dominating today’s world of internet users because of their portability, ease of access, and yes, they come in handy. While browsing ‘on the go’ is easier and can be very interesting, it can also be a headache through excessive mobile data charges. Why?
Most of the websites that host the information we need are designed to attract readers and keep them coming back always. In this case, the designers turn to use a lot of “catchy” high-resolution graphics and web plugins to enhance the look and feel of web pages.
I will not be quick to forget about Ad displays―what most publishers love to do―of course it’s not always wrong when a publisher displays Ads on their website. It’s a good way of earning revenue to support their hard work that comes into play before displaying the relevant information you seek on those web pages.
While minimized Ad placement is good, some publishers turn to use a lot of Ad serving on almost every part of their website, to some extent, very annoying. This, in effect, increases the amount of content data loaded during page loads, this increases mobile data charge too. Yes, excessive Ad placement increases (mobile) data charges.
Another instance of high data charges results from the apps with internet (data) access that you mostly use on your mobile device. Most of these apps are configured to run in the background, sometimes, during your device startup. With background data access, most of these apps regularly sync information between your other devices, and unless you take chances to restrict them, they’ll always run at the expense of your internet data.
What more, “The apps that use the most data typically are the apps that you use the most. For a lot of people, that’s Facebook, Instagram, Netflix, Snapchat, Spotify, Twitter and YouTube. If you use any of these apps daily, change these settings to reduce how much data they use.”, according to Matt Elliott, CNET.
Streaming programs, music and movies also add to the same canker. Using mobile data to stream high-resolution video clips can be very costly depending on your mobile carrier, time of streaming and the type of internet data used.
Does your browser have the ability to compress web files, create a cache of web contents, optimize contents for mobile display or does it just pump junk web contents by simply rendering web codes into displayed screen contents? Simply put, the type of browser you use can go a long way to either lower or increase your internet data charges.
Depending on all of the reasons clearly stated above, the size of the content that needs to be loaded before displaying the relevant information a user is browsing for, on a particular website, affects the amount of data used. (Continue reading on the next page)
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