The monthly website traffic function is sometimes referred to as information transfer or bandwidth as well, still all of the abovementioned names refer to the same thing - how much info can be transferred to and from a shared web hosting account. The site traffic can be produced in just two ways, the more visible one being site visits. If someone visits your website, their web browser requests and downloads the webpages from your website hosting server and then displays them on their end. The more visitors you have, the more outgoing traffic is generated from your website hosting account. As this characteristic includes the whole site traffic, not only the site visits, you should not forget that incoming traffic is measured too. This means that web site content and other files that you upload to your account via a file manager or an FTP program are measured towards your account quota. Your transfer is typically checked per month and the counter resets on the first day of every month regardless of your actual date of registration.