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Monthly transfer is visitors times page views times page weight, and throughput is that volume in megabits spread over the seconds in a month, scaled up by the peak factor. Hosting plans quote monthly allowances but fail on peak throughput, which is why the peak-to-average ratio matters more than the total for a site with spiky traffic.
Monthly transfer
MB = visitors x page views x page weight
Peak throughput
peak Mbps = average Mbps x peak to average ratio
MB = visitors x page views x page weight. Monthly transfer is visitors times page views times page weight, and throughput is that volume in megabits spread over the seconds in a month, scaled up by the peak factor.
Hosting plans quote monthly allowances but fail on peak throughput, which is why the peak-to-average ratio matters more than the total for a site with spiky traffic.
Enter monthly visitors, page views per visitor, average page weight, peak to average traffic ratio. The defaults shown are a realistic worked example — swap in your own figures to get a result you can use.