I was looking through our hosts stats this weekend and noticed that our BW usage has increased quite dramatically over the past couple of weeks for no reason other than a significant increase in traffic.

With that being said, does anyone have any hints or tips on how webmasters can decrease their BW usage?

I know about things like adding anti-hotlinking to .htaccess files and optimizing image file sizes but i was wondering if there are any other methods we can be using to minimize how much BW we use with our sites?

So, anyone got any hints or tips they would like to share with the community?

Regards,

Lee