I received a warning stating: "This site is approaching the 500 GB monthly bandwidth limit for the Business Site plan.
I am currently optimizing images on this Webflow website, which contains over 10 CMS collections with nearly 2,000 images embedded within post body. So far, I have downloaded, optimized, and reuploaded more than 1,000 images. I still have around 950+ images left to optimize and replace in the CMS.
I’ve made great progress, but the process is still ongoing. Meanwhile, new articles are being added across different collections, and the team is uploading optimized images as per my instructions.
Given this situation, what steps can I take to ensure optimal bandwidth usage? Has anyone encountered a similar issue.strong text
I do a lot of site optimizations for clients and I’ve written up some notes and tips here-
Webflow has a CMS image optimization tool, however it sometimes has issues and you may have to run it many times in order to process everything.
Download-convert-re-upload is the most painful approach but you can do it if needed for the largest images or ones which the CMS tool won’t optimize.
It’s not so bad for image and multi-image fields as they’re easier to parse and replace in the CSV. Rich text is more challenging.
Overall it’s a painstaking process, but use the site traffic report as your guide, and limit it to 1 day so that you can see the impacts of yesterdays’ updates.
In most client sites I optimize, background vid is the biggest offender so I off-host those onto a different service. Sometimes there are very large SVGs or Lotties as well. If you’re using large custom fonts those can bite you, but off-hosting them is a bit trickier.