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Hey Blackberry, do you get paid for Bandwidth burned on data networks?

Thursday, January 5th, 2012

Requests from:

User-Agent: BlackBerry8530/5.0.0.886 Profile/MIDP-2.1 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/105
Accept: application/vnd.rim.html,text/html,application/xhtml+xml,
application/vnd.wap.xhtml+xml,text/vnd.sun.j2me.app-descriptor,
image/vnd.rim.png,image/jpeg,application/xvnd.rim.pme.b,
application/vnd.rim.ucs,image/gif;anim=1,application/vnd.rim.jscriptc;
v=0-8-72,application/x-javascript,application/vnd.rim.css;v=2,text/css;
media=screen,application/vnd.wap.wmlc;q=0.9,application/vnd.wap.wmlscriptc;q=0.7,
text/vnd.wap.wml;q=0.7,*/*;q=0.5

We prefer a number of content-types, but, if worse comes to worse, we’ll accept everything anyhow.

440 bytes transmitted on EVERY request made from a Blackberry when you could have just done:

Accept: */*

and saved 428 bytes PER request.

This particular page had 97 assets, amounting to almost 32k in wasted bandwidth sending headers to the CDN.

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