Within 10 days of our site being powered by Netlify we have used approx. 815GB of bandwidth.
Using Web Page Size Checker | Toolsaday, I’ve found our website to be 1.68MB - which I thought was pretty decent.
We get roughly 60-80k visits per day.
Is this usual for a site of this size with this many visitors per day?
Are there any methodologies we can deploy to help reduce our bandwidth?
Thanks!
I’m sure you’ve already done this, and it’s all extremely approximate, but…
The homepage shows as around 1.76mb when I load it.
It contains around 1.46mb of images.
The assets all seem to be loading from Netlify.
At 60-80k per day visits, if the users were all new and cache wasn’t involved, you’d be using 105.6gb to 140.8gb per day, which over a 10 day period would be 1.05tb to 1.4tb.
So 815gb over 10 days does seem to be within the realm of the traffic reported.
Netlify have a general ‘Support Guide’ for reducing bandwidth usage here:
https://answers.netlify.com/t/support-guide-how-to-reduce-your-sites-bandwidth-usage-without-reducing-traffic/42768
I’m not sure what plan you’re currently on, but the ‘Open Source’ plan is likely available to Audacity:
https://www.netlify.com/legal/open-source-policy/
It may not make sense within the context of an Astro build, (I have no idea, I don’t use it), but you could host assets elsewhere on any other CDN that offers a lower bandwidth cost.
Or even use a competitor product (Cloudflare Pages) which still promotes ‘unlimited bandwidth’:
https://pages.cloudflare.com/
Their Astro documentation is here:
https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/framework-guides/deploy-an-astro-site/
Thanks nathanmartin,
Just through further image optimisation I’ve been able to reduce the size down to 514.57 KB.
I’ll keep optimising to see if I can get it down further, but fingers crossed this should be enough to keep us within our bandwidth limit.
We’ve just been approved for your ‘Open Source’ plan which is fantastic, thank you for that suggestion!
Thanks for your speedy response.
@DilsonsPickles That’s great news, and I’m seeing the page as approx 474kb.
Just to clarify, I don’t work for Netlify, I don’t even host with them, I’m just a random community member.
Yes I’ve continued to optimise where possible. I think I’ve got it down even further!
Well then… all the more reason to thank you again! You’ve been a great help and I appreciate you helping me out!