# Average 'payload' size per pageview (to calculate bandwidth needs)

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**Created:** [May 10, 2015, 10:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/average-payload-size-per-pageview-to-calculate-bandwidth-needs/28600 "2015-05-10T22:16:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2015, 1:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/average-payload-size-per-pageview-to-calculate-bandwidth-needs/28600/4 "2015-05-11T01:26:09Z")

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It would only be relevant if you never served images. And it would be very small, you would have to be absolutely enormous to hit traffic limits on pure text alone.

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