How to Check Your Bandwidth Usage

Bandwidth measures the total amount of data transferred between your website and its visitors each month. Monitoring it regularly helps you understand your traffic patterns and avoid unexpected overages.

How to View Bandwidth Usage

1. Log in to your cPanel account.
2. Go to the Metrics section and click Bandwidth.
3. You'll see a summary of your current month's bandwidth usage, along with a history of previous months broken down by service - web (HTTP), FTP, and email.

Understanding Your Bandwidth

Bandwidth is consumed any time data is sent from your server to a visitor's browser - including HTML pages, images, scripts, downloads, and media files. Email sent and received also counts toward your bandwidth usage.

What If You're Using a Lot?

If your bandwidth usage is consistently high, there are a few ways to reduce it:

• Enable Gzip compression via .htaccess to reduce the size of files sent to browsers.
• Use a content delivery network (CDN) to offload static assets.
• Optimise images before uploading them to your site.
• Review your traffic logs to check for bots or scrapers consuming bandwidth unnecessarily.

If you're approaching your monthly bandwidth limit and need more, dotCanada makes it simple to upgrade your plan. Contact our support team and we'll walk you through your options.