Review of Bandwidth
Bandwidth is data transfer capacity. The amount of data that can be transferred back and forth from your website or webpage at a specific time. And this data transfer incorporates all transfers, uploads, and downloads, either HTTP or FTP.
Calculate the Bandwidth of your website
Web Hosting Bandwidth relies upon the site page size, the number of guests to your site, and the number of pages they visit.
All you have to do is multiply the average page size with the average number of guests and, then multiply the obtained value with the average number of visited pages.
How much is required?
The order is as if the website has higher Bandwidth; the transfer rate of data will be faster. Which, in turn, implies that the website will be loaded more quickly. And this swiftness of the webpage attracts the visitors towards the website and converts them in your potential customers.
On the contrary, insufficient Bandwidth will make the webpage sloppy. The website will take more time to load the content, images, and posts, which will result in the damaged reputation of the website. So make sure that you have bought the sufficient Web Hosting Bandwidth.
For standard website
Well, it depends on the traffic to your site. If you just start up and has less traffic on your website or your website has fewer pages or content, you can engage well with small Bandwidth like 5 Gb or more or less.
Or if your website is dealing with massive online traffic, or has more pages and content, it will require large Bandwidth for the ideal execution of the site.
Also, if you want to grow your business online via your website. Then you should buy more bandwidth package form the Web Hosting. In this way, you will be able to host several visitors and substantial online traffic.
For live streaming website
Bandwidth for live streaming is further divided, namely, upload Bandwidth and download Bandwidth, and it depends on different factors.
- Quality of the video, i.e., lower (144, 240), SD (360, 480), Half HD (720), Full HD (1080)
- Color Depth (bits/pixel); number of colors represented by each pixel.
- Frame Rate; quantity of still images or frames per second (fps) in the video streaming
The bandwidth required for all mentioned videos lies in 0.5Mbps to 25 Mbps range per video.
One standard definition of bandwidth requirement cannot be applied to all those working in different businesses. Keep in mind that during inbound traffic and outbound traffic, the allocated Bandwidth is consumed, i.e., whenever you transfer or receive any kind of data to the user or from the user (either uploaded or downloaded) it is being added in the amount of Bandwidth used.
So least try to make a room of extra Bandwidth of about “1.5×rate of streaming” for a successful live broadcasting website while signing up for Web Hosting.
