The cPanel control panel allows us to see the bandwidth usage of your site. It displays the current month’s bandwidth usage, as well as the previous month’s bandwidth usage in graphical view.
Depending on the settings made by your system administrator, the bandwidth usage includes:
- HTTP (web) bandwidth usage
- POP3 (mail) bandwidth usage
- FTP bandwidth usage
- IMAP bandwidth usage and
- SMTP bandwidth usage
Through this article, we are going to discuss the steps to view the site’s bandwidth usage using cPanel.
Step (1). Log in to your cPanel account.
Step (2). Check for the Bandwidth icon. Usually, it will be under the Logs group.
Step (3). Click on the Bandwidth icon, it will open the Bandwidth page.
Step (4). On the Bandwidth page, it will show:
- The total percentage of monthly bandwidth transfer will display under the Monthly Bandwidth Transfer group.
- You can also find Today‘s bandwidth usage, Past 7 Days bandwidth usage, monthly bandwidth usage, and Past 12 Months bandwidth usage in respective groups.
Step (5). Click on monthly bandwidth usage charts to display detailed bandwidth usage for the selected month. This information will be displayed under the “Bandwidth Transfer Detail” page.
Step (6). From the “Bandwidth Transfer Detail” page, check for the “Bandwidth by Day” section. This section will display bandwidth usage by day.
Step (7). From the “Bandwidth by Day” section, click on the day to see the detailed bandwidth usage for that particular day. cPanel will display detailed bandwidth usage for that particular day.
These are the ways you can check bandwidth usage for your website using cPanel’s control panel.