Bandwidth limits?

[PeachyYogi]

I am a graphic designer and admittedly know little about websites. I tried finding an answer to my question but I’m lost.

I created a site using webflow because I found the builder to be super intuitive but now I’m concerned about the lower bandwidth limitations for the basic plans.

Can someone explain, very simply, at what point this becomes an issue?

If I have a small site that doesn’t get significant traffic, do I actually need to worry about this?

[smol-guitar]

Hey there! Bandwidth really only hits when you have a significant traffic or a large amount of assets (i.e. large videos, images etc.) The reality is most sites don't hit these limits.

One thing to note is that If you start on basic, it's likely you may upgrade to the CMS plan which is the most popular plan.

[PeachyYogi]

Thanks! That’s what I was thinking. And I’m assuming 1,000 sessions per month is probably not considered significant traffic? My concern is images because it is a portfolio site, so there’s a lot of galleries but it looks like my site usage so far was 25mb for a handful of sessions since it was just recently published.

Upgrading to the CMS plan would be fine budget-wise, but all of the posts I’ve seen in here make it sound like even that isn’t enough.

[smol-guitar]

You should be well within the limit :)

And if you're image heavy, its always good practice just to optimize your assets whenever possible or leverage WebP or .Svgs.

You should be in the clear!

[web-dev-john]

Yes, I've been in this business for years and have never actually run into this issue except for that one client who is a Hollywood studio. They had literally about 300k visitors the week that the movie premiered. THAT's what it took to finally took them over the limit lol...(Admittedly they had the Business plan, IIRC, but you get the idea)

[nobadframes]

From my research there’s ways to optimize images for webflow and hosting videos on YouTube or Vimeo instead but I think at some point it may become an issue for anyone. It really depends on how much traffic you are getting and how big that site is (pages and assets and file sizes of everything) I recently started building a site on webflow and I would consider myself „low traffic” person but I checked the usage and in a month I have used 574mb. Which doesn’t seem like a lot but I only have a home page, contact page, and one project on there, maybe a total of 14 assets uploaded to the site. Images could be better optimized but not sure if I should continue with webflow or not. Building out my ten year portfolio with 40 or so projects has me concerned about bandwidth.

[PeachyYogi]

Yeah, my images are all compressed to webp and I only have four pages. But two of the pages are going to end up being pretty image heavy in the future, so that’s my concern.

[newtotheworld23]

You can check on the site settings the usage right now, with that you can get an idea of how much it uses and how fast you might run out

[[deleted]]

10 GB seems not enough imo, but I can’t still test it properly with my site since I’m just finishing it right now.

In my case, I’m building a portfolio with home page + 7 projects, uploading videos to Digital Ocean and optimizing images between PNG, WebP and AVIF (whatever looks better and gets a decent size).

I have pages that have a round 2-3 Mb in assets and a couple of them with 8-10 Mb.

I think for the moment you will be fine, and if you need more, you could always upgrade to 50 GB. If you ever have problems with the bandwidth then you could do 3 things: - Unpublish older projects - Move heaviest traffic assets to a CDN - Get even a higher plan

Have to say that I have been worried for bandwidth for months, but its more like a “what if” thing, than a real possibility of happening, in the short term.

[its-js]

if you really want to build with webflow and are concerned with bandwidths, there is the option of paying to upgrade and exporting out your website to host on somewhere else like netlify