1) Wind speed and direction data tends to change radically from second-to-second and is interesting to watch, especially in coastal areas where high wind speeds often cause significant property damage and even loss of life.
2) Rapidly changing gauges quickly demonstrate to website visitors that they are in fact watching near-real-time data. Bob On Monday, February 20, 2017 at 10:23:14 AM UTC-8, Andrew Milner wrote: > > I would prefer to ask the questions - why am I providing 3 second updates? > What practical value do 3 second updates have for most users?? What is the > point?? > > > > On Monday, 20 February 2017 19:33:27 UTC+2, tempus wrote: > >> This is merely a suggestion for consideration. >> >> Space characters are commonly used within and between key-value pairs in >> associative arrays to improve human readability. Because 'gauge-data.txt' >> human-readability isn't important, the file could be reduced in size 158 >> bytes, plus another 15 bytes if spaces after commas in the "WindRoseData" >> string were removed, which would make the file 10 percent smaller. >> >> 173 bytes doesn't seem like much. However, with 3-second updates there >> will 86400 / 3 = 28,800 file transmissions per day to each concurrent >> user. 28,800 x 173 bytes = 4,982,400 unnecessary bytes-per-day-per-user. >> It is not uncommon for individual pages at active websites to have large >> numbers of concurrent visitors, so why waste the bandwidth and processing >> time? >> >> Bob >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
