Bandwidth Increased Dramitically

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Hey,
I launched my website on July 1, 2003. In my first month I recevied about 25,000 visitors and my total bandwidth usage was 76.023 MB at the end of July. When I asked people that how come I received 25000 visitors but my bandwidth usage was only 76MB. They told me that my users were probably caching my website and that is why my website is not eating bandwidth. BUT now in August, so far I have received little over 4000 visitors in 6 days and my bandwidth usage so far is 108.32MB. My biggest page on the website is 30KB which is my index.html page.

Can anyone tell me what is going on here? Am I supposed to be using this much bandwidth or was my first month stats wrong?

Thanks for your help.

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Thats not bad, I keep my site uncached, I have 20GB of bandwith to waste and I’ve used around 300MB this month so far. The biggest file on my server is around 20MB. But then thats a private file. Biggest public file is less than 1MB always.

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I know this is not bad at all. But I was really surprised at my stats for July since it only showed total usage of 76MB. How can you uncache or cache your website? Is there an option that I should look for in my control panel for the server?

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I think I’m using a javascript so the page or at least content won’t save on their computer.

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I see. I have 30GB of bandwidth to burn. If I run into problems then I might think about caching the website but other wise I am alright for now. :slight_smile:

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Since most of my users are 56k+, I can do that, but if most are 56k-ers, then I’d cache more.

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I just switched to dsl 2 weeks ago and I never had problems with my website not loading fast enough. The index page is only 29.9KB and every other page is smaller than that so I am pretty good for now. :slight_smile:

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I think 20GB is well enough for most websites. Unless you are doing like a download site, no need for more.

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how do you guys get traffic to your site? i’ve only gotten like 20 unique people since early yesterday.

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Umm sorry guys but if the user is caching your site then it won’t even register a hit. It is just like say using a local or offline copy of the site. Also, if your reading just logs of users hitting your site then that is skewed. For every page that the same user hits will register a hit in your logs. You are quoting ‘pages accessed’ and not unique impressions (or visitors).

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Thor, forums are really attractive, plus, often updates on the site with content helps too.

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We are talking about visitors. I am getting over 1 million hits every month. Over 50,000 page views and over 25,000 visitors.

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What’s ur url?

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Like Maxtor said content is the big thing. Design is not the biggest that people look for. It is nice to have a good layout but paying 100% attention to the design will not do you any good. Put more and more and more content for everyone to read. If your website is about flash then put daily news related to flash and what is going on in the industry. People want content and not some pretty website. Forums help alot. Forums give people something to look forward to.

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I wish I had that much. :blush:

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www.CoolTechZone.com

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*Originally posted by overclocker23 *
**Like Maxtor said content is the big thing. Design is not the biggest that people look for. It is nice to have a good layout but paying 100% attention to the design will not do you any good. Put more and more and more content for everyone to read. If your website is about flash then put daily news related to flash and what is going on in the industry. People want content and not some pretty website. Forums help alot. Forums give people something to look forward to. **

What does this have to do with anything? :crazy: (-:

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Looks pretty cool. But your forum isn’t too popular it seems. Otherwise, I think content is whats basically attracting.

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*Originally posted by Maxtr0sity *
**Thor, forums are really attractive, plus, often updates on the site with content helps too. **
so what, you’re saying i should get a forum?

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Like Maxtor said content is the big thing. Design is not the biggest that people look for. It is nice to have a good layout but paying 100% attention to the design will not do you any good. Put more and more and more content for everyone to read. If your website is about flash then put daily news related to flash and what is going on in the industry. People want content and not some pretty website. Forums help alot. Forums give people something to look forward to.

This is for the guy who wants to know how we get that much traffic.