Newbie Question: what is bandwidth?

[Lora Alexander]

I'm a newbie and would like to know what bandwidth is and how it is related to traffic?
I moved from an old platform to Appdrag because of my traffic plummeted for several reasons and thought the SEO feature would help. My traffic is still super low but just got a notice that my bandwidth is 75% and could be shut down if it gets to 100%. What affects bandwidth?

[Joseph Benguira]

Hey Lora,

Bandwidth is the amount of data transfered when visitors view your pages
It include the page content and also all images present on your site
On average we consider 1MB per visitor but YMMV if you have a lot of images on your page

You can test your page with a tool like this to find out big files served on your site:
https://tools.pingdom.com/

If you are in FREE mode it's limited to 500MB/month, but with our paids offer it's much much more (10 000 MB for Basic, 25 000 MB for PRO) and on all our products you can add additional bandwidth for $0.25/GB

[Lora Alexander]

@Joseph-Benguira Just one follow up question: so is this a one time purchase? I don't have to keep paying for it yearly (the extra band width?)
thanks!

[Joseph Benguira]

@Lora-Alexander When you purchase additional bandwidth, it's added as a never expiring amount of bandwidth that can be used above your monthly quota

so If you have a monthly quota of 10GB and you purchase a 20GB additional package, then we first use your monthly bandwidth
let's say in a month you are doing 12GB of bandwidth then we will use 10GB from your subscription + 2 GB from your additional bandwidth bank.