```json
{
    "title": "How much of your bandwidth does RSS consume?",
    "url": "https://performancezen.com/2006/02/15/how-much-of-your-bandwidth-does-rss-consume/",
    "datePublished": "2006-02-15",
    "dateModified": "2006-02-15",
    "language": "en-US",
    "description": "Yesterday I was on a call with a customer who flat out stated that 55% of their bandwidth was consumed by applications pulling RSS feeds. Does your company have a…",
    "author": "spierzchala",
    "publisher": "Performance Zen"
}
```

# How much of your bandwidth does RSS consume?

Yesterday I was on a call with a customer who flat out stated that 55% of their bandwidth was consumed by applications pulling RSS feeds.
Does your company have a grip on just how much continual background noise RSS feeds inflict on your Web servers?
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