How to view website bandwidth or traffic usage in Plesk?

The Plesk statistics is a report in Plesk that calculates disk space, Mail Space, Database usage and traffic usage on a per domain and hosting account.

To view website bandwidth or traffic usage Statistics in Plesk control panel. Please check following steps:

  1. Login to the Plesk control panel.
  2. Go to Statistics.
  3. The following information is presented in charts:
    • Traffic used by FTP, web, and email services during the current month.
      • FTP field shows the information about the total size of files transferred to and from the web space over the file transfer protocol.
      • HTTP field shows the information about the total amount of data transferred from all of your websites over HTTP protocol, that is, retrieved by web browsers.
      • POP3/IMAP field shows the total amount of data received by all mail accounts under your domains.
      • SMTP field shows the total amount of data sent by all mail accounts under your domains.
  4. Do any of the following:
    • To view a report on the amount of data transferred to and from your sites over FTP, click FTP Statistics.
    • To view a report on the amount of data transferred to and from your FTP directory, which is accessed without authorization, click Anonymous FTP statistics.
    • To view a report on the amount of traffic used by services during a certain month, click Data Transfer Statistics, and select the required month from the menu.

Remember that depending on your hosting plan can be suspended automatically if you overuse bandwidth limit.

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