Advantages of Using Ajax

The Advantages of Using AJAX

AJAX Web Hosting is an incredibly important facet of the website hosting industry to discover and understand. As one of the major technological advances of the last decade in web development, AJAX is set to become more and more widespread, popular, and efficient.

But what are the major advantages of using AJAX on your website and why is it so popular?

Lower Bandwidth Usage

Bandwidth, in web hosting terms, is more or less data that is communicated between a user interacting with a website and the server processing each request. For example, when you click on an image and it loads on your computer screen, you are using that website’s bandwidth. Some web hosts have incredibly low bandwidth limitations per month, so lowering the amount used for each application or request is something many webmasters have always looked forward to.

Because AJAX only utilizes bandwidth to load the first request, it decreases monthly bandwidth usage considerably. Unlike normal applications, AJAX does not require that each page be refreshed or re-loaded each time a user requests another process. Contents on each page are loaded in the background so that the user can have fluid, effortless communication with the site.

Lunarpages offers 3,500 GB of bandwidth per month, an amount you are not likely to go over anytime soon!

Cross-Browser, Cross-Platform Compatibility

Many technologies for web hosting applications are only available to Windows or Mac users, through IE or FireFox, or have other such limitations that throw away the opportunity to have a share over every market available. If you’re only catering to a Windows or IE market, you’re losing out on Mac users, Linux users, and browsers who prefer FireFox, Safari, or Opera.

AJAX-rich applications can be hosted on any browser, on any operating system, at any time. This is possibly why so many people flock to AJAX and continue to be interested in its development.

Speed

Simply put, AJAX makes your page load faster. Okay, so there’s a longer explanation around that statement. For the same reasons that AJAX helps lower your monthly bandwidth output, it also increases the speed of each page’s load. So because AJAX generates HTML locally and behind the scenes and does not call useless JavaScript or data, pages built with AJAX load quicker than normal.

There are also many disadvantages to using AJAX, so you’re going to want to do some research and decide if the pros outweigh the cons. For many, AJAX is changing the way web applications are run, while for others it is a technology they are not interested in. Lunarpages proudly offers the ability to run AJAX on our webhosting plans.