When the traffic increases on your WordPress blog, all aspects of your blog’s code and design elements also increase.
For example, let’s say the front page of your blog calls upon 8 graphics to create the «look» of your blog’s design. Add to this number the various WordPress template files it takes to build your page. You’ve got the header, sidebar, footer, and post content area at a minimum. That’s four more «calls» to files on your site. For 100 visitors, those files get loaded 1200 times. For 1000 visitors, those files are accessed and loaded 12000 times. This increases your bandwidth and server activity.
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