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What is traffic/ bandwidth/ data transfer?


Traffic, bandwidth, and data transfer refer to the amount of information transmitted to
and from your website by you and your visitors. The following are the factors for your
traffic usage:

1. The amount of traffic you receive (hits to your website)
2. The size of your site
3. The types of files offered on your site

If your website is 1 MB including pages and images, and 100 people visited your
website and viewed all the pages, the traffic generated would be approximately 100 MB.

Find out more...

How to check traffic/bandwidth usage on Linux Shared/Managed Server Packages
How to check traffic/bandwidth usage on Microsoft shared packages
What kind of traffic will be billed and what is the cost for additional bandwidth for Root Servers?
Where can I check the amount of traffic I have used for Root Servers?

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