how much bandwith do you use ?

[locos]

im trying to guage my bandwith usage to see if its above or below normal. i have a popular site that i had to split among 2 powweb accounts because i was fastly approching the bandwith usage limit. since the split im now getting :

Low-Riders.com (main site) 14.4gb of bandwith. this is down from the previous month of 22gb of bandwith. it has gone down drastically since i split the site and added the second account.

low-forum.com (second teer site) 4.4gb per month. this is where i keep the forums and chat rooms.

so, what kind of bandwith did you use last month ?

[satis]

I was all proud of myself and stuff till you posted that. :) I used about 5GB last month, up from 3.5GB the month prior. Ah well, I'm still growing, I guess. heheh. Good work, I guess you chose a great subject.

[RadioRob]

One of my sites is just for a small online gaming club... the past 30 days has seen about 800 MB of traffic. ;)

But as it stands right now... the site mainly all text. Very few graphics. Next design will be changing that, so we'll see how bandwidth useage looks then. lol

[paulselhi]

well i got 26,291 visits in dec and used 1679 MBs over the last 30 days

[GearHead]

Originally posted by paulselhi
well i got 26,291 visits in dec and used 1679 MBs over the last 30 days

what's wrong with my site? Paulselhi got 26k in visits and 1679mbs bandwith. My OPS states:

Your Package allows 30GB's of transfer within a 30 day period. Your total HTTP transfer for the last 30 days is 1091.78 MBs. The total number of requests your site has received is 122159, making your average MB per request 0.01.

Why do I have more visits, but less bandwith?
not that I'm complaining......

[paulselhi]

depends on what your site contains and the file size

also my site had 26292 VISITS but 321156 REQUESTS

[paulselhi]

perhaps someone will be kind enough to give a full definition of :

visits

requests

hits


i assume visits are each time someone arrives at the page

hits are the total number of pages called up

and requests are calls for objects

though i am probably wrong !!!

[alphadesk]

pauli,

Hits represent the total number of requests made to the server during the given time period (month, day, hour etc..).

Files represent the total number of hits (requests) that actually resulted in something being sent back to the user. Not all hits will send data, such as 404-Not Found requests and requests for pages that are already in the browsers cache.

Tip: By looking at the difference between hits and files, you can get a rough indication of repeat visitors, as the greater the difference between the two, the more people are requesting pages they already have cached (have viewed already).

Sites is the number of unique IP addresses/hostnames that made requests to the server. Care should be taken when using this metric for anything other than that. Many users can appear to come from a single site, and they can also appear to come from many ip addresses so it should be used simply as a rough guage as to the number of visitors to your server.

Visits occur when some remote site makes a request for a page on your server for the first time. As long as the same site keeps making requests within a given timeout period, they will all be considered part of the same Visit. If the site makes a request to your server, and the length of time since the last request is greater than the specified timeout period (default is 30 minutes), a new Visit is started and counted, and the sequence repeats. Since only pages will trigger a visit, remotes sites that link to graphic and other non- page URLs will not be counted in the visit totals, reducing the number of false visits.

Pages are those URLs that would be considered the actual page being requested, and not all of the individual items that make it up (such as graphics and audio clips). Some people call this metric page views or page impressions, and defaults to any URL that has an extension of .htm, .html or .cgi.

[Atomic-Design]

I've never hit above 2 gigs ... but all my pages are usually just HTML, and very small gif graphics. Atomic Sim got really popular, but only used 2 gigs because we didn't offer large downloads or mp3 backgrounds :)

[kanwulf]

Requests as used by Ops means just that. Each and ever requested file be it an image, page or other binary file.

[Jade Dragon]

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