Do these web stats seem right?

[WoodiE]

Unique Visitors: 41,022
Number Of Visits: 98,833
Pages: 1,323,713
Hits: 7,255,476
Bandwidth: 47.64GB

Members: 2,728
Threads: 11,627
Posts: 111,526

Is this normal for a small forum of this size to be using nearly 50GB of bandwidth a month? Right now the forum gains about 250 new members a month. What can I do to decrease the bandwidth useage?


Anyhelp would be GREATLY appericated.

-Michael

[Joe Gronlund]

No its not generally,, but then if you have large attachments being downloaded, or other upload or downloading of large amounts of data. Then that would account for the high amount of bandwidth usage

[matthepepe]

your stats are nearly identical to mine... and i noticed like asendin said my biggest bandwidht user is the attachments ...

[WichitaRacing]

My stats are not even half that and I use nearly 20GB/mo, and I don't even allow attachments! I did notice some off-site linking of a few vids I host though. I might have to crack down...

[tamarian]

47.64 GB divided by 1,323,713 page views =~ 36k per page view

Sounds reasonable if there are many avatars/attachmnets.

If you can enable compression on the forum/server, you can reduces this considerably.

[dynamite]

Unique Visitors: 41,022
Number Of Visits: 98,833
Pages: 1,323,713
Hits: 7,255,476
Bandwidth: 47.64GB

Members: 2,728
Threads: 11,627
Posts: 111,526

Is this normal for a small forum of this size to be using nearly 50GB of bandwidth a month? Right now the forum gains about 250 new members a month. What can I do to decrease the bandwidth useage?


Anyhelp would be GREATLY appericated.

-MichaelIt sounds about right to me. Here are mine for comparison:
Unique Visitors: 42,129
Number of Visits: 61,079
Pages: 328,134
Hits: 2,374,909
Bandwidth: 10.54 GB

Members: 3,962
Threads: 1,311
Posts: 11,987