What makes up website traffic?

Traffic is measured by all the data moving in and out of your hosting account.

• HTTP (Website Activity):
  • Page views (text, images, layouts) Including Public and Non public interfaces
    • ie: One PDF or Image file that is 8Mb get downloaded 50 times in 1 month, this would be 400Mb of traffic for this one file in one month.
  • File downloads (PDFs, images, content etc.)
  • Videos or audio played from the site (If not loading through Youtube)
  • Uploading (Images, PDF, etc through website interface)
  • Forms submitted (e.g. contact, checkout)
  • Emails sent from the website (like order confirmations)
  • Search engines and bots crawling the site
• POP3/IMAP (Email Receiving):
  • Downloading emails to your computer or phone
  • Syncing inboxes across devices
• SMTP (Email Sending):
  • Sending emails out through your hosting (newsletters, contact form replies, account emails)
• FTP (File Transfer):
  • Uploading website files, images, or updates
  • Downloading backups or files from the server