How to Manage Your Monthly Data Transfer Efficiently
How to Manage Your Monthly Data Transfer Efficiently
Monthly data transfer is the amount of information that you transmit from your site. In other words, each time a picture or HTML page is viewed by a visitor, it adds to your monthly data transfer. The average HIT is approximately 10k. This would mean that a transfer limit of 1.0 Gigabyte would allow 100,000 hits and a limit of 12.0 Gigabytes would allow 1,200,000 hits. (That's a lot!)
To keep your data transfer low, follow these suggestions:
- keep the images on your website below 10k
- do not use too many images on your site
- limit your audio/video clips
- if you are getting a lot of hits and using a lot of data transfer, take advantage of it! Sell banner space. It's not a 'bad' thing to use a lot of data transfer if you are making money on the extra traffic.
