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If you have a website, one of the most important things you need to know about is the bandwidth. You do not know what it is, you say? Ok, let's go.

Essentially, the bandwidth is the amount of data you can transfer at the same time. When you have less bandwidth, your site takes longer to load regardless of what your visitors have the opportunity.

With more visitors each visitor will have to wait their turn if you do not have enough bandwidth to accommodate everyone.

Si vous pouvez réduire le montant des transferts de données que vous avez de votre côté, vous aurez un site que davantage de personnes puissent visiter, car vous n'aurez pas à vous soucier de dépasser le montant de la bande passante de votre fournisseur d' Hosting allows you.

The more data you transfer, the more bandwidth you use. The less data you transfer, the less bandwidth you use. Therefore, keep it simple for best results.

How much bandwidth do you need?

How much bandwidth you need for your site will depend on a number of factors. Basically, you want to keep your site as simple as possible, to reduce the amount of bandwidth.

This, in turn, makes it possible for more visitors to your site. Not only that, they will be able to make your pages more easily and are less likely to leave because they are waiting to unload your pages.

To determine how much bandwidth you are currently using, take a look at the traffic in history.

If you do not already have a site and you are interested, you can estimate the amount of bandwidth you use in evaluating the following factors:

• Number of daily visitors, or the number you expect
• Average daily page views per visitor, or the number you expect
• The size of your site, including graphics, or size you expect it to be

Then take each of these numbers and multiply by 30, then add them together. That gives you an idea of average size your monthly transfer needs. If you are also underway to offer downloads, then take the number of downloads per day, multiply 30 times, and add to the foregoing that the total transfer.

You should also give you a small additional percentage in the transfer to take into account the needs of e-mail traffic and any additions you make.

Are "unlimited" hosting plans a good idea?
You may have noticed that some hosting plans offer "unlimited" bandwidth. In theory, it's a good idea, because it means that you do not need to look at how much bandwidth you use.

However, it is only in theory. What really happens is that you are given a fixed amount of bandwidth irrespective of the number of visitors you have. Therefore, if you have a small amount of visitors, their transfer, and hence their time waiting times are small.

However, if you have a lot of visitors, they just have to be "in line" with everyone and their allotted amount of bandwidth will be proportionally lower depending on how many there are more visitors.

That means they will have much more time than wait times if you do not use a lot of bandwidth, even if you use an "unlimited" hosting plan.

Therefore, your best bet true in most cases it will be to limit the use of bandwidth you have (including the website graphics and things of this nature), so you have more left over for your visitors to use.

Optimizing graphics, and build cascading style sheets, JavaScript external call if you use it instead of embedding yourself, and not to use streaming audio or video. You can also clean the HTML code of your page by reducing the amount of meta tags, white space and comments.

You can cache your website easier and faster to load, but then set an expiry date in the HTTP headers so that the browser will refresh the content after a certain time.

Spiders too can reduce your bandwidth, but if you use the robots.txt file, which can help keep their control of the situation.