Group29.com - What did you expect?
  Create an account
:: Home  ::  Downloads  ::  Your Account  ::  Forums  ::
Google Adsense
Modules
  • Home
  • Downloads
  • ExpectationReviews
  • Forums
  • Group29 FAQ
  • MovieReviews
  • OtherReviews
  • Stories Archive
  • Submit News
  • Top 10
  • Topics
  • Web Links
  • New at Group29
    ·Movie Review: Buzz Lightyear Movie [10]
    ·Movie Review: The Marvels [7]
    ·UCLA vs. USC 2022 preview
    ·Expectation Review: Black Adam [22]
    ·Tuna Is Not The Favorite Pizza Topping in Minnesota
    ·Expectation Review: Captain Marvel [25]
    ·Forum Topic: Update your Facebook property
    ·Web Link: WEP Key Converter
    ·Forum Topic: Why does my IPA file get saved as a zip file in IE?
    ·Web Link: BeyondCompare

    read more...
    TheForce.Net
    ·Rebelscum Breast Cancer Awareness Charity Patch
    ·BBC Interviews J.J. Abrams About Trek And Wars
    ·CEII: Jabba's Palace Reunion - Massive Guest Announcements
    ·Fathead's May the Fourth Be With You!
    ·Star Wars Night With The Tampa Bay Storm Reminder
    ·Stephen Hayford Star Wars Weekends Exclusive Art
    ·ForceCast #251: To Spoil or Not to Spoil
    ·New Timothy Zahn Audio Books Coming
    ·SDCC: Exclusive Black Series Boba Fett With Han In Carbonite Set
    ·Star Wars Art Exposition May 4th

    read more...
    Hot trends
    ·Group29.com

    read more...
    Group29 Discussion Board :: View topic - Maximum size for RSS feeds?
    Log in Register Forum FAQ Memberlist Search
    Ratings, Links, Free Speech and more

    Group29 Discussion Board Forum Index -> Group29 Tech Tips -> Maximum size for RSS feeds?
    Post new topic  Reply to topic View previous topic :: View next topic 
    Maximum size for RSS feeds?
    PostPosted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 11:59 am Reply with quote
    BB
    Regular
     
    Joined: Jun 23, 2004
    Posts: 340


      


    I have been running into this lately with a few RSS feeds. The Office Zealot blogger Atom feed exceeds 500K in size. This is bigger than what my feed reader of choice, GreatNews, could handle. The current incarnation of the feed is 611,963 bytes and has entries going back to 11/24/2004. The MSDN Magazine RSS Feed is another big one. While I cannot read them all, I usually check the summary and have found many interesting tips in those places.

    This is a problem with GreatNews, not with the Office Zealot feed. The limit was upped in the next dot release to 800K. Another example feed in the GreatNews forums:

    http://www.devexpress.com/RSS/KBFULL/KB20.xml

    is 5 megabytes in size and contains all the entries in the DevExpress knowledge base!

    Since there really is no documented standard practice for size of RSS/Atom feeds, this is acceptable. There is no upper limit in the spec for the number of items or size of any item. But, hundres of items are not typical. Commonly, an RSS feed has just the latest 10-20 entries, or the last week to month worth of news items. Most desktop aggregators are able to archive news items and commonly expect feeds in the size of 20,000 bytes or so. Web-based aggregators typically show the latest 10 items. So perhaps these sites should retain the latest 100-200 posts or so.

    It is worth noting that the above example for Office Zealot means that they are being hit for a 1/2 megabyte bandwidth download for each RSS request. So for example, just my RSS Reader is hitting them for 12MB every day.

    RSS 2.0 Specification home page
    http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification
    View user's profile Visit poster's website
    Maximum size for RSS feeds?
      Group29 Discussion Board Forum Index -> Group29 Tech Tips
    You cannot post new topics in this forum
    You cannot reply to topics in this forum
    You cannot edit your posts in this forum
    You cannot delete your posts in this forum
    You cannot vote in polls in this forum
    All times are GMT - 6 Hours  
    Page 1 of 1  

      
      
     Post new topic  Reply to topic  


    Powered by phpBB © 2001-2003 phpBB Group
    Theme created by Vjacheslav Trushkin
    Forums ©
    Group29 Productions

    All logos and trademarks in this site are property of their respective owner. The comments are property of their posters, all the rest (c) 2006 by Group29 Productions.


    You can syndicate Group29 Productions news with an RSS Feeder using the file backend.php


    PHP-Nuke Copyright © 2005 by Francisco Burzi. This is free software, and you may redistribute it under the GPL. PHP-Nuke comes with absolutely no warranty, for details, see the license.
    Page Generation: 0.31 Seconds

    :: HeliusGray phpbb2 style by CyberAlien :: PHP-Nuke theme by www.nukemods.com ::