You've reached the bandwidth limit for your website
Bandwidth is one of the most common measures of usage for digital service providers.
It's similar to your cell phone data plan – you have an allotment of a certain amount of bandwidth, and if more than that is used you need to pay more or wait until the next month for it to reset.
Easy Funnels sends out a warning when you've used 80% of your available bandwidth, as well as a second message when your bandwidth limit has been reached.
If you exceed your bandwidth limit, your site will be shown as inactive to any visitors until you upgrade or the limit resets. Do not ignore the email warning you that you've used 80% of your limit!
Determine why you have exceeded your bandwidth limit, the text below will describe some of the most common causes of high bandwidth issue.
Chances are you have large image or audio files on your site. If you use embedded video backgrounds, that also has an affect on bandwidth usage.
To avoid using excess bandwidth, we recommend using only compressed .jpg images for your site, try to keep image to 200kb or less. This will also help to improve your page's load times.
As a website builder designed for audio engineers, we know audio quality matters. But, we also want to make sure it's easy to understand how the Filepass audio player uses bandwidth.
The Filepass audio player does not load the audio files until a user clicks play – meaning if a user visits your site, but doesn't play any files, only the bandwidth used to load each page is counted.
As soon as a user clicks play on a file, though, that entire file is downloaded.
If you have multiple large .wav files, this can add up quickly. For example, 16 bit 44.1kHz .wav files typically are about 10MB per minute. This means that a five track portfolio consisting of 3 minute songs will use roughly 150MB of bandwidth when a visitor plays each song.
Compare that to 320KBPS MP3 files, which average about 2.5MB per minute – the same portfolio would use only 37.5MB if every song is played.
For the sake of this example, let's say you are on Easy Funnels' Single Page plan, which offers 2GB of bandwidth. The example portfolio with .wav files could be loaded in its entirety roughly 13 times. By changing to 320KBPS MP3, the portfolio could be loaded 53 times.
This example doesn't take into account the bandwidth used to load your pages and images, but it should provide some insight as to how you can reduce your bandwidth usage, or when it might be time to upgrade.
Unlike a regular YouTube embed, the video background feature uses YouTube's API. This means there is extra code (about 2MB worth) installed on your site for each video background added to a block – to cut down on this extra code, use images or colors instead of videos.
You'll need to upgrade your plan for one month to a higher-bandwidth plan, or wait until your limit resets (on the date you subscribed each month). Until one of these two events happens, your site will be shown as offline.
It's similar to your cell phone data plan – you have an allotment of a certain amount of bandwidth, and if more than that is used you need to pay more or wait until the next month for it to reset.
Easy Funnels sends out a warning when you've used 80% of your available bandwidth, as well as a second message when your bandwidth limit has been reached.
If you exceed your bandwidth limit, your site will be shown as inactive to any visitors until you upgrade or the limit resets. Do not ignore the email warning you that you've used 80% of your limit!
What do I do first?
Determine why you have exceeded your bandwidth limit, the text below will describe some of the most common causes of high bandwidth issue.
Why have I exceeded my limit?
Chances are you have large image or audio files on your site. If you use embedded video backgrounds, that also has an affect on bandwidth usage.
Images
To avoid using excess bandwidth, we recommend using only compressed .jpg images for your site, try to keep image to 200kb or less. This will also help to improve your page's load times.
Audio
As a website builder designed for audio engineers, we know audio quality matters. But, we also want to make sure it's easy to understand how the Filepass audio player uses bandwidth.
The Filepass audio player does not load the audio files until a user clicks play – meaning if a user visits your site, but doesn't play any files, only the bandwidth used to load each page is counted.
As soon as a user clicks play on a file, though, that entire file is downloaded.
If you have multiple large .wav files, this can add up quickly. For example, 16 bit 44.1kHz .wav files typically are about 10MB per minute. This means that a five track portfolio consisting of 3 minute songs will use roughly 150MB of bandwidth when a visitor plays each song.
Compare that to 320KBPS MP3 files, which average about 2.5MB per minute – the same portfolio would use only 37.5MB if every song is played.
For the sake of this example, let's say you are on Easy Funnels' Single Page plan, which offers 2GB of bandwidth. The example portfolio with .wav files could be loaded in its entirety roughly 13 times. By changing to 320KBPS MP3, the portfolio could be loaded 53 times.
This example doesn't take into account the bandwidth used to load your pages and images, but it should provide some insight as to how you can reduce your bandwidth usage, or when it might be time to upgrade.
Video backgrounds
Unlike a regular YouTube embed, the video background feature uses YouTube's API. This means there is extra code (about 2MB worth) installed on your site for each video background added to a block – to cut down on this extra code, use images or colors instead of videos.
I've resolved the issue. What now?
You'll need to upgrade your plan for one month to a higher-bandwidth plan, or wait until your limit resets (on the date you subscribed each month). Until one of these two events happens, your site will be shown as offline.
Updated on: 09/06/2021
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