Many users are familiar with the situation when a site stops working properly due to a large number of visitors. To avoid this, the resource administrator must know the peak number of site visitors and choose a hosting based on the amount of expected traffic.
Necessary
counter to the site
Instructions
Step 1
As a rule, the payment for hosting services directly depends on the traffic consumed by the site and the amount of disk space occupied. Knowing what traffic the site consumes, the administrator can choose the most suitable tariff. For an objective assessment of the parameters of the site, it is necessary to have relevant information - site loading speed, the number of visitors on the site, the peak (record) number of visitors, etc.
Step 2
First, find out how much traffic your site is consuming. Go to Istio.com's Analyze Site page. Enter in the field the address of the analyzed page of the site without the http prefix and click the button "Site page through the eyes of our robot". You will see information about the page, including its size. For example, a site page "weighs" 80 Kb. For calculations, it is worth rounding the figure up, up to 100 Kb.
Step 3
Now you need to determine the site traffic, for this you can use Yandex Metrics, a free Yandex service. With its help, you can analyze various indicators of the site, including traffic. To get statistics, you need to register, get the counter code and install it on the site. Installation is very simple, all the necessary explanations are on the service. After installing the counter, detailed statistics of attendance will become available to you.
Step 4
Having received statistics, you can calculate the traffic consumed. To do this, the number of visits must be multiplied by the viewing depth, all these data will be in the resulting statistics. For example, you have 1500 visitors per month with a viewing depth of 2, 4. Multiply 1500 by 2, 4, you get 3600. With an average page size of 100 KB, your site will spend 360 megabytes of traffic during this time. Please note that if your site has files to download, the actual traffic consumption may be higher. In addition, a significant part of the traffic is "wind up" by search robots. When visiting one page of the site, the robot "eats" about 300 KB per day. Knowing the number of site pages, you can calculate how much load they give to the site. You can limit the appetite of robots by setting the robots.txt file, detailed information about this can be found on the net.
Step 5
You can check the loading speed of website pages using specialized services - for example, Site-perf.com. Go to the site, enter the address of the desired page in the search bar without the http prefix. In the Test-point line, select one of the servers (any) from the drop-down list. Click the Go button, you will be presented with detailed information about the page load speed.
