Webflow Bandwidth Numbers Still Do Not Add Up. Anyone Else Seeing This?

We have now had two separate incidents where our Webflow blog suddenly shows completely unrealistic bandwidth spikes, followed by large overage charges that do not match our actual traffic in any way.

This began right after Webflow introduced bandwidth reporting. Our usage numbers jumped to levels that made no sense. Support responses were unhelpful and never addressed the mismatch.

Out of options, we duplicated the entire project and pointed hosting to the new copy. Overnight, the bandwidth usage returned to normal. That makes it hard not to question what is actually driving these numbers.

Now the same thing is happening again on the duplicate. Same unexplained spike. Same charges. No real clarity.

I am not suggesting this is intentional, but the pattern does raise concerns. The inflated numbers always seem to result in higher bills for us and we still have no meaningful explanation from Webflow.

If this cannot be resolved with transparent data and a refund for the incorrect charges, we will need to consider moving off the platform.

Is anyone else seeing bandwidth behavior like this?

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AI bots are fun. This is AI bot traffic on sygnal.com, HTML-only ( not counting asset traffic ). The green spikes are OpenAI’s GPTbot which I suspect is gathering for a new model.

This doesn’t count asset traffic, or non-AI bots like standard SEO crawlers, malbots, etc.

AI bot traffic alone is now nearly 10x human traffic.

You can mitigate it by disallowing AI bots in Webflow’s site dashboard under the SEO tab, but I believe it only adds some robots.txt rules, which many bots will ignore. Talk to Jeff if you need to go deeper than that and block them fully.