Gatsby Hosting measures your usage for your workspace with two metrics:
- Requests
- Bandwidth
Requests
HTTP Requests are how your browser communicates with the internet. Anytime a browser requests a URL for your site, it also requests other resources needed to present the webpage. This includes HTML, images, JavaScript, and other kinds of files. Each file request counts toward the request limit for your workspace. For free plans, requests are counted over the duration of the current month (e.g. Jan. 1 - Jan. 31). For paid plans, requests are measured over the duration of your billing cycle.
Bandwidth
Bandwidth is the amount of data transferred over a specified amount of time. Each plan has a Bandwidth allocation expressed in gigabytes (GB). For free plans, bandwidth is measured over the duration of the current month (e.g. Jan. 1 - Jan. 31). For paid plans, bandwidth is measured over the duration of your billing cycle.
Anytime a user visits your Gatsby Cloud site, some data may be transferred over the network to the user's browser. Every file the user downloads that is not retrieved from their browser cache contributes to the amount of bandwidth consumed for your organization.