The 25 or so charts have been receiving many views which is pleasing, but off late external sites have been linking in and doing perpetual "refresh chart" requests. That creates bandwidth use and whilst that was always in the 8-10Gb monthly with 35 to 40 thousand views, now it's getting crazy and 21Gb was used as of 18th per a mail warning that the account is close to hitting 25Gb. For instance the host stats show the CEP crunching chart had 11,000 views in the first 18 days of June, where the thread this one is included in had 'only' 1,705 visits in 6 months.

As first measure from my side, I'm shrinking the images, of course at the price of loss in resolution, but unless those who with direct links into their own websites that keep refreshing the call and instead start caching a copy on their own site, the Supplemental Charts images will soon turn dark with a message. It will then reset on July 1. Maybe another item to make a chart for ;>)

thanks for reading
(in case you wonder why it got pitch black ;-)

Edit: The Photobucket host account actually resets at the 23rd of the month.