Q: What exactly does the bandwith mean?
What is limited there? Does this mean that if it resizes 100 pics to 5 mb down, that i used 5 mb bandwith this month.!?
best regards
Daniel_TwicPics
May 15, 2024A: Hi!
Thank you for the question.
The number of transformations is unlimited. The pricing is based on the bandwidth of optimized images you deliver to you website's visitors.
Let me explain it in your terms:
You have 10 000 pagevues per month. On average there are 10 images on your typical page. The size of the original high-resolution image is 5MB.
TwicPics resizes the master image on the fly to adapt to each user's device, and performs some additional optimizations. The optimized image weights 0.2 Mb.
You're going to use a total of 20GB CDN bandwidth monthly (that is, 10 000 * 10 * 0.2 Mb of bandwidth).
Julian_TwicPicsThe bandwidth is exactly that, the bandwidth delivered to the visitors of your site. So if you 5kb resized/optimized image is viewed by 100 persons, than it's 500kb of bandwidth.
We provide unlimited master images and transformations and we didn't want to have too complicated a cost formula with hidden fees like most credit-based systems are. As such, we smooth the price of computation and caching up onto bandwidth usage.
Hope this answers your question!
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Thank you both for your replies. First, I have to say that your product and its developer focus looks very interesting. And I have seen + understood your bandwidth calculations in various post
That said – judging from our own CDN consumption and page-views, already a modest E-Commerce project could exceed the limits of your largest tier. 100.000 monthly page views are not much in E-Commerce, you may reach these numbers with 500 daily visitors less. That's far, far away from Enterprise traffic you referred to (where you are rather looking at 500 people checking simultaneously)…
And an E-Commerce will very likely show a lot more images on product categories than just 10. A product grid with 10 product thumbnails (incorrectly assuming that you would not use images anywhere else on that page) would look very meager and hamper UX: Users would get tired hammering the pagination. We display 48 products on every category page – and product thumbnails are by far not all images shown on that page. If you happen to have images in your menu, you can easily end up with hundreds of bitmaps on every page. Lastly, if you care for SEO, you'll have hundreds of categories or more.
Please consider another tier that matches the 250 GB from your website. That's still a package for relatively small stores.