Bandwidth query

[Mox]

Hi, I'm helping my brother with his site (dirtbikestore.com) regarding his hosting - his current monthly usage is:

Web space 50 MB
Monthly traffic: 15 GB
Total users: 25,000

It's a reasonable sized site - I was just surprised at the amount of bandwidth being used, or is this fairly normal for an online catalog?

Many thanks in advance

Michelle

[Darren B]

depends on image sizes, emails being sent, uploads and downloads they all add to bandwidth its not just people viewing the site

[pinbrook]

single product page sites use alot less bandwidth too

[Duncan Rounding]

Browse your stats and see if you can see any hotlinking of images.

[malbro]

Hi, I'm helping my brother with his site (dirtbikestore.com) regarding his hosting - his current monthly usage is:

Web space 50 MB
Monthly traffic: 15 GB
Total users: 25,000

It's a reasonable sized site - I was just surprised at the amount of bandwidth being used, or is this fairly normal for an online catalog?

Many thanks in advance

Michelle

On those figures you have 600Kb per user, which is pretty similar to figures from one of the sites I manage, it does depend on the number of pages they are viewing.

[Mox]

Many thanks everyone for your help, that all makes alot of sense. Thanks too Malcolm for your figure for comparison.

Duncan - I've taken a look, can't see anything obvious - is there anything in particular I should be looking at? From what I can see, the only images listed on the stats are related to google and yahoo image searches which I think is fine isn't it?