Title: Using the bandwidth plugin
Last modified: September 8, 2018

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# Using the bandwidth plugin

 *  [GermanKiwi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/germankiwi/)
 * (@germankiwi)
 * [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-the-bandwidth-plugin/)
 * Hi, if I log into my Matomo site and go to the Visitors Overview page, it always
   shows “0 M Bytes transferred overall”.
 * I believe this is because the Bandwidth plugin is not receiving any bandwidth
   data.
 * Is this WordPress plugin able to utilise this plugin to provide the bytes transferred,
   as described here?….
    [https://plugins.matomo.org/Bandwidth#faq](https://plugins.matomo.org/Bandwidth#faq)
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   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [braekling](https://wordpress.org/support/users/braekling/)
 * (@braekling)
 * [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-the-bandwidth-plugin/#post-10672556)
 * To do so, WP-Matomo has to get the bandwidth data from somewhere. Do you have
   a WordPress plugin or a code snippet on how to do this?
 *  Thread Starter [GermanKiwi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/germankiwi/)
 * (@germankiwi)
 * [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-the-bandwidth-plugin/#post-10673382)
 * No, I don’t have such a plugin or code snippet. Are you aware of one that can
   do this?
 * Is the WP-Matomo plugin not able to generate this data itself? Maybe as a new
   feature?
 * Incidentally: does the “bandwidth” just mean the size of the page that is viewed(
   ie. size of text and pictures etc in bytes)? Or does it mean something else?
 *  Plugin Author [braekling](https://wordpress.org/support/users/braekling/)
 * (@braekling)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-the-bandwidth-plugin/#post-10915318)
 * No, I don’t want to add this as a feature. WP-Matomo is not in the position to
   do an overall bandwidth measure for your whole WordPress, and extending it to
   do so does not make sense. This should be done by a specific plugin.
 * The bandwidth is the size of the request + size of the page + the additional 
   data which is send with each requests (headers). But it may be less than the 
   sum, e.g., if some of the images are cached on client-site. So it’s not that 
   easy and should be done by the web server in the best case.

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