What is bandwidth

[coelmay]

Hi @zhitch

This post explains more about bandwidth What does actually count in bandwidth? - #2 by luke as well as Billing → Bandwidth usage documentation which says:

Metered usage consists of all outgoing data traffic on your team’s sites, including:

• pages, files, assets, and other responses served to site visitors on production sites, branch deploys, or Deploy Previews.
• outgoing data sent by your sites in proxied API requests, including requests to Netlify Functions.

You might find the following support guide useful reading

[Support Guide] How to reduce your site's bandwidth usage (without reducing traffic!)

Last reviewed by Netlify Support: September 2023 Netlify does not want to make money charging you for unnecessary bandwidth overages. Our Starter plans come with 100 GB of bandwidth included. We’ve found over time that this allotment is more than sufficient for most non-commercial websites. What you may not realize is that we don’t want to make money this way - we intend to be a business focusing on collaboration tools and we provide web hosting to achieve that goal - so we don’t want you to wa…