Why is my static site consuming so much bandwidth?

[nzrocker]

Hi. I have built a very basic site using Publii + Netlify. The site has the basic starter theme and about 50 posts, each containing about 300-500 words of text and no images. The size of each webpage is 13-16kb

I have had only 130 visitors on my website so far but Netlify shows me that about 33 MB of bandwidth has already been consumed. I do not understand where this usage is coming from given each page is less than 20kb in size.

I didnt expect more than a couple MB of bandwidth to be consumed based on my math, so I am shocked to see 33MB of bandwidth being consumed. There isn’t a single image, video, special effect or any fancy font or anything like that used by me except the Google Analytics code I have pasted in the head section

Can someone explain where this 33mb of bandwidth usage is being generated from? (I have directly uploaded my site to Netlify, haven’t used Git)

[tomrutgers]

Can you share your site so we can have a look?

[nzrocker]

solarinstallers.directory

[hrishikesh]

Hi @nzrocker,

I’d personally not consider Google Analytics as a reliable source of truth when it comes to calculate bandwidth:

Does Netlify analytics exclude scrapers from stats?

Hey @cbovis, So, there’s a couple of things at play. Being server-side, Netlify Analytics will obtain numbers based on all users – even those with ad/traffic blockers enabled. This does also include scrapers and crawlers. There’s several Netlify Analytics reviews and comparisons online which discuss the pros and cons rather well. Personally, I see Netlify Analytics used on projects because it’s GDPR compliant. It’s nice to not have to create consent banners! There’s no right or wrong – it …

I’d say 33 MB is pretty low and not something you need to worry about. Even with a daily traffic of about that much, you’re still left with around 99 GB of traffic to spare for the month.