The traffic can be measured using the size of the files that are transferred from one place to another (server-client).
- It can also be measured by the size of the file that is being requested by the client from the server.
- The number of visitors arriving on the website also involve in the measurement of the traffic using the web hosting platform.
- The advertisements of the sites take more bandwidth to allow more number of users to be on the website.
- More number of users provides higher traffic on the website thus it requires more bandwidth on the web hosting sites.