Published
August 22, 2024
Updated
November 14, 2024
Here are some key things you need to know about bandwidth.
What Webflow Counts
Assets Included in Bandwidth
If you're familiar with Webflow's hosting architecture, Webflow counts everything that is delivered from the CDN;
- All Image Types
- Background Videos
- CSS
- Webflow.js
- ? Likely other file types stored in assets, such as PDFs
Traffic Counted in Bandwidth
Webflow counts
- Traffic to your hosted, published site
- Traffic to your webflow.io site
What is not counted in bandwidth;
- HTML
- ? RSS
- Traffic to showcased sites and cloneables in Made in Webflow, according to comments made in Webflow forums
2024-08-22 - It also appears that a very small amount of traffic is generated by publishing your site, to the effect of a single load of your homepage only. This might be the dashboard thumbnail generator.
How to find Assets
It can be very difficult to locate the actual assets in your site. All you are given is a filename like My project.jpg.
It could be;
- In your site assets
- In your CMS content
- In CMS rich text
- ? In user-uploaded content
- In locale-specific content ( for Enterprise users, who are able to localize images ).
One tool that can help you locate these images is Unlighthouse.
I prefer to do a full wget download of the HTML only and then use VSCode to search across the entire project. It makes it easier to see the full set of instances.
What happens if I go over Bandwidth?
If your site is on a Basic, CMS, or Business Site plan, it will receive complimentary surge protection. This means you won’t be billed for any overages the first month your site exceeds its bandwidth limit.
Sites that exceed their bandwidth limits for a second consecutive month will be automatically upgraded to the plan with the appropriate usage allotment at the end of that second month.
- Webflow docs
If you fix the problem after you've been auto-upgraded, you'll be able to downgrade after you've fixed it- by reducing the bandwidth add-ons and/or reducing the plan level.
