How is my bandwidth calculated?
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Your Webready website can accommodate thousands of visitors at a given time. The bandwidth is the amount of data that a website uses during a specific time period, and your bandwidth limit depends on the subscription plan that you are on.
In most cases, a site will not exceed its bandwidth limit. Sites with very high traffic and those that use a lot of high-quality images and other media on the web pages are more likely to exceed the bandwidth limit.
- Webready counts are based on the number of images on the pages.
- Webready does not take into account any text that is on the page, only images, so the bandwidth figures are less than the actual total bandwidth.
- If you check your browser’s network data while viewing a page on the website, you will be able to see the total bandwidth for that page, filtering by images will show the bandwidth based on images only, as measured by Webready.
The values seen here depend on the device being used to view the website. Larger displays will see larger bandwidth usage. - If the Home page, for instance, has 57 images, if there are 100 users on your website for 1 day who view the home page only, that will automatically be 570 image views.
- When viewing the pages with images, such as an image gallery, although you may see 1 version of that image, there are actually multiple versions of that image downloaded to cater for different display sizes/orientations. For instance, changing your desktop view to landscape view will show a different, scaled version of the image.
- The device size that the website is viewed on will affect the bandwidth usage as well, because different size images will be loaded depending on the screen size. The website images viewed on a mobile device will be smaller than those viewed on a desktop.
- The bandwidth used for a site will also depend on the browser that a guest views it on. Some browsers will store images in the cache so even if you refresh that page, it will not need to download the images again. However, some browsers will always re-download the images, resulting in higher bandwidth use - Webready has no control of this. Also, for those browsers that cache the images, if the guest continuously refreshes the page, then some browsers will then re-download the images.
- Webready calculates the number of persons who visit the website on a particular day from capturing the unique IP addresses. This can be done for 1 day, 2 days, a month etc.
- Webready captures 3 things:
- The number of images requested for a date range.
- The total bandwidth consumed by IP address or image URL.
- The total visitors for the date range.
Since Webready does not display page views, to calculate the image views and compare it using the statistics provided by Google Analytics or other analytics platforms:
Using 2-5 of the most viewed pages from your analytics platform, get the number of images (Webready support can assist with this) and calculate the image views as shown below.
Total images in the top-visited pages divided by the amount of top-visited pages => average images per page.
Average images per page multiplied by total page views (from Google Analytics) => total image views.
Compare the total image views calculated from the above steps, against image requests from Webready stats.