WHAT is traffic on a web site

G'day all

I have a new web site which is hosted by doteasy.com and it allows me 1Gb of traffic per month...

I have had 2363 hits since June06 and just wonder how many "bytes" are used when someone visits the site?? Or are they just saying that I am going to go over my quota to get me to pay for more space???

Cheers
Wendy


DETAILS:

DATE (Pacific Time) Web Traffic (Byte) Subtotal (MB)
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ARCHIVES FROM LAST MONTH (Only Partial Month Remains)
JUL 03 11685287 11.14
JUL 04 17357619 16.55
JUL 05 20457315 19.51
JUL 06 25969452 24.77
JUL 07 30711729 29.29
JUL 08 24483797 23.35
JUL 09 32315541 30.82
JUL 10 40190838 38.33
JUL 11 26402280 25.18
JUL 12 14453286 13.78
JUL 13 28144941 26.84
JUL 14 26753046 25.51
JUL 15 41144793 39.24
JUL 16 40490970 38.62
JUL 17 40408266 38.54
JUL 18 23446081 22.36
JUL 19 44264044 42.21
JUL 20 34467345 32.87
JUL 21 38517243 36.73
JUL 22 21741533 20.73
JUL 23 41393700 39.48
JUL 24 80421810 76.7
JUL 25 27893165 26.6
JUL 26 34820248 33.21
JUL 27 16107450 15.36
JUL 28 26505514 25.28
JUL 29 39442715 37.62
JUL 30 40774623 38.89
JUL 31 24020195 22.91
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THIS MONTH'S TRAFFIC LOG
AUG 1 22694774 21.64
AUG 2 54136355 51.63
AUG 3 101723639 97.01
AUG 4 65740594 62.7
AUG 5 37045360 35.33
AUG 6 23344709 22.26
AUG 7 57821865 55.14
AUG 8 27000419 25.75
AUG 9 24078108 22.96
AUG 10 21587679 20.59
AUG 11 47968180 45.75
AUG 12 36298014 34.62
AUG 13 23820733 22.72
AUG 14 30749398 29.32
AUG 15 0 0
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TOTAL for August 2006: 547.418MB 547.418MB
TOTAL IN GB: 0.535GB

 

Traffic is the amount of data transfered, sometimes this is refered to as bandwidth usage.

Imagine you have a html page that is 10k in size, everytime someone visits this page the server will transfer 10 KB of data to the clients browser. If this page contains 2 images that are 100kb in size the browser will also download these images resulting in another 200kb of 'transfer'

If you are hosting any large files then these will result in using yours transfer quota faster.

Hope this makes things clearer for you.

 

G'day Matt

THANK YOU for that....... You have explained SO much
I thought it must have had something to do with the content of the pages....

Soooooooooooo if I take all my photos off my site I should be OK...

Cheers mate
Wendy

 

Well removing photos will reduce your transfer costs, but there are other ways, if you have downloads make sure they are zipped to reduce size. If you have thumbnails make sure they really are thumbnails not fullsize images just resized into thumbs. If you are uploading images from a digital camera or something similair them the chances are they will be HUGE files sizes (possibly upto 3 or 4 mb each), you should edit them and crop them and save them as jpg or png (NOT BMP) this would probably help lower your transfer.

 

Thanks Matt
It's all good info mate.....
And of course I wouldn't take off my photos
But it's good to know how it all works....... and I appreciate your reply...

BTW. my site is
http://johnathonschaech.net

Cheers mate
Wendy

 

Whats with all the extra line breaks in your source ? that probably doesn't help lol.

How big is that flash menu? It could be using more transfer that you need. Personally I don't like flash menus, (for many reasons) one of which is that search engines can't read them and spider your site properly.

 

Hey matt.chug,

How do you get your site to show up in Google, etc.?

I found a tutorial explaining how to make a robots.txt (I think that's what it was) and upload it to the root directory, but it didn't seem to make any sense or help with getting your page to show up in search engines.

I'm not understanding how to get page views, do you have a layman's terms link or something that might be of some help?

 

Hey Matt
Thanks for your reply mate
I actually had someone create the site for as a blank canvass and I have just added the content so was interesting you pointed out all the line breaks... I will have to go delete a few eh??...

I'm not fussed on my flash menu either, but being a novice, don't really know how else to do it...

Do you have suggestions as to how I can simplify my site and WHERE I can get the info to do that???

Cheers mate
Wendy
XO

 

I had a quick look at the source and theres a lot of 'generated' code

I did a quick edit and by removing the blank lines which contains a lot of spaces too lowered the document size from about 40k to around 10 which might not seem a lot but on 1000 views would save you around 30mb transfer.

Personally I wouldn't know where to start explaining how to simplify your site, I don't use Editors like dreamweaver or frontpage, I know html and xhtml so I tend to write the code by hand. You might have a look on the web for some html tutorials and see what you can learn. There are hundred of tutorials out there but you might try shttp://www.w3schools.com/

 

G'day Matt
Could you please explain this further???
Do you mean that if I look at the source (html) and get rid of the blank lines I could get rid of 30k??

Cheers mate
Wendy

 

you'd have to edit the source file manually, Im not sure where the lines have come from, probably whatever editor your were using but they arn't 'blank' completely.

Some of the code lines in your page have been indeneted with spaces and so have the blank lines.

You'd need to edit the code for the page and then reupload the page to the server hosting the site.

 

Some of the code lines in your page have been indeneted with spaces and so have the blank lines.

Thanks Matt

But being a doofus and all....
Could you please explain the blank lines to me>????
Or just show me a snippet of the source of my index page where they are???

Sorry mate but I am just not grasping it....

XO

 

I'll explain but your server seems to be down right now.

 

oh Bugger
Any luck today???

 

robots.txt is a file that doesn't really make your page show up in a search engine, but makes sure that when a search engine uses its software (often called a spider) to visit+search (crawl) your page, the robots.txt file will keep it out of any directories that are web acccessable but you dont' want showing in google. Ie an example would be a photagraher keepinga directory of example photos of work hes done. But he doesn't want them to appear in googles image search cause he wants to keep them private, he would add that folder and a denie command to the robots.txt file.
http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/robots.html

 

Sorry, i've been mia all weekend.

What proggram do you use to make your webpages ?

If you visit your site and then goto View --> Source you will see what I mean about the blank lines.

You will need to edit this using the same program as you normally use to edit your website. Just remove all the lines that appear blank.

for example your head section should look more like this:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
	<head>
		<meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type" />
		<title>Website of Actor Johnathon Schaech - Actor, Writer, Director, Film Producer</title>
		<meta http-equiv="Page-Enter" content="RevealTrans(Duration=4, Transition=23)" />
		<meta name="resource-type" content="document" />
		<meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache" />
		<meta name="revisit-after" content="14 days" />
		<meta name="classification" content="Johnathon Schaech" />
		<meta name="description" content="Fan based Website of Johnathon Schaech. Website features, Biography ,News, Films " />
		<meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE" />
		<meta name="keywords" content=" Johnathon Schaech" />
		<meta name="robots" content="ALL" />
		<meta name="distribution" content="Global" />
		<meta name="rating" content="General" />
		<meta name="copyright" content="Johnathon Schaech 2006" />
		<meta name="author" content="Wandaful" />
		<meta http-equiv="reply-to" content="wandaful@johnathonschaech.net" />
		<meta name="language" content="english" />
		<meta name="doc-type" content="Web Page" />
		<meta name="doc-class" content="Completed" />
		<meta name="doc-rights" content="Copywritten Work" />
		<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="wendy.css" />
	</head>

Incidently theres a lot of meta tags there, not sure they are all needed really.